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Così fan tutte, ossia La scuola degli amanti [a] (Women are like that, or The School for Lovers), K. 588, is an opera buffa in two acts by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. It was first performed on 26 January 1790 at the Burgtheater in Vienna, Austria.
The concerto is scored for solo piano, flute, two oboes, two bassoons, two horns in C, two trumpets in C, timpani and strings. The concerto has three movements: Allegro maestoso; in common time. The tempo marking is in Mozart's catalog of his own works, but not in the autograph manuscript. [3] Andante in F major.
The opera was the first of three collaborations between Mozart and Da Ponte, followed by Don Giovanni and Così fan tutte. It was Mozart who originally selected Beaumarchais's play and brought it to Da Ponte, who turned it into a libretto in six weeks, rewriting it in poetic Italian and removing all of the original's political references.
Playbill for the opening performance of Die Zauberflöte, 30 September 1791. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's operas comprise 22 musical dramas in a variety of genres. [a] They range from the small-scale, derivative works of his youth to the full-fledged operas of his maturity.
Mozart: "Grand Scherzo," based on the Finale to Act I of Cosi fan tutte (2009) Rachmaninoff: "Vocalise" (2009) Fantasy on The Last Rose of Summer (2008) "Irish Tune from County Derry", arranged for piano, four-hands from the Grainger version for solo piano (2008) Debussy: Clair de lune (arranged for piano, six-hands) (2007) Khachaturian: Sabre ...
Così fan tutte (1790). All created for the Court Opera in Vienna, they are in Italian , the language considered most suitable for opera at the time, and are Mozart’s most popular operas apart from Die Entführung aus dem Serail and The Magic Flute , composed on German libretti in the Singspiel genre.
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The indication "K." or "KV" refers to Köchel Verzeichnis (Köchel catalogue), i.e. the (more or less) chronological catalogue of Mozart's works by Ludwig von Köchel.This catalogue has been amended several times, leading to ambiguity over some KV numbers (see e.g. Symphony No. 24 and Symphony No. 25, numbered K. 173dA and 173dB in the 6th edition).