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Article: W.A. Mozart: Cosi fan tutte.
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- June 1, 1997
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In this impressive study of Cosi fan tutte, Bruce Alan Brown draws on a wide variety of sources to assemble a lively and compelling portrait of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's opera, making this book a welcome companion to the study and full appreciation of the composer's work.
In chapter 1 ("Introduction") we learn that in his memoirs Lorenzo Da Ponte dubbed his libretto La scuola degli amanti and described it as holding "third place among the sisters born of that most celebrated father of harmony" (p. 3). Some authors, including Brown and Daniel Heartz, have assumed from this quotation that Da Ponte saw the opera as inferior to Le nozze di Figaro or Don Giovanni, or have ...