Mozart, the story of his life as a man and artist : according to authentic documents & other sources . ic and theGerman translation were written by three inhabitants ofSalzburg.* The scenes included a view of a seaport anda temple of Neptune, and were painted by the celebratedarchitect of the theatre and adviser to the Gourt, Quaglio. They were universally admired. Itwill be remarked, as usual, the music passed unnoticed. It is, however, certain that Idomeneo met with thesuccess which its rehearsals had betokened. Also it wasnot for want of interest that Mozart allowed his work tofal
Mozart, the story of his life as a man and artist : according to authentic documents & other sources . ic and theGerman translation were written by three inhabitants ofSalzburg.* The scenes included a view of a seaport anda temple of Neptune, and were painted by the celebratedarchitect of the theatre and adviser to the Gourt, Quaglio. They were universally admired. Itwill be remarked, as usual, the music passed unnoticed. It is, however, certain that Idomeneo met with thesuccess which its rehearsals had betokened. Also it wasnot for want of interest that Mozart allowed his work tofall into oblivion. When later he was established inVienna he had thoughts of resuscitating it. He had deter-mined to revise and remodel certain parts of it; he veryespecially intended to substitute a tenor for a soprano inthe role of Idamante, and to give that of Idomeneo to abaritone instead of a tenor. But unfortunately the pro- * Schachtner had been deputed to make a German translationwritten simply to help those of the spectators who did not under-stand Italian, to follow the course of the
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