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New Mozart Edition II/5/2/1-2 La finta semplice WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART Series II Works for the Stage WORK GROUP 5: OPERAS AND SINGSPIELS VOLUME 2: LA FINTA SEMPLICE (The Feigned Simpleton) PRESENTED BY RUDOLPH ANGERMÜLLER AND WOLFGANG REHM 1983 International Mozart Foundation, Online Publications IV New Mozart Edition II/5/2/1-2 La finta semplice Neue Mozart-Ausgabe (New Mozart Edition)* WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART The Complete Works BÄRENREITER KASSEL BASEL LONDON En coopération avec le Conseil international de la Musique Editorial Board: Dietrich Berke Wolfgang Plath Wolfgang Rehm Agents for BRITISH COMMONWEALTH OF NATIONS: Bärenreiter Ltd. London BUNDESREPUBLIK DEUTSCHLAND: Bärenreiter-Verlag Kassel SWITZERLAND and all other countries not named here: Bärenreiter-Verlag Basel As a supplement to each volume a Critical Report (Kritischer Bericht) in German is available The editing of the NMA is supported by City of Augsburg City of Salzburg Administration Land Salzburg City of Vienna Konferenz der Akademien der Wissenschaften in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, represented by Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur Mainz, with funds from Bundesministerium für Forschung und Technologie, Bonn and Bayerisches Staatsministerium für Unterricht und Kultus Ministerium für Kultur der Deutschen Demokratischen Republik Bundesministerium für Unterricht und Kunst, Vienna * Hereafter referred to as the NMA. The predecessor, the "Alte Mozart-Edition" (Old Mozart Edition) is referred to as the AMA. International Mozart Foundation, Online Publications V New Mozart Edition II/5/2/1-2 La finta semplice CONTENTS Sub-volume 1 Editorial Principles ……………..…………………………………………………….. VII Foreword………….…………………….……………………………………………… VIII Facsimile: Leaf 1r of the autograph (beginning of the Sinfonia)………………………. XXVII Facsimile: Leaf 71r of the autograph (from No. 8)…………………………………….. XXVIII Facsimile: Leaf 109v of the autograph (end of No. 11)………………………………… XXIX Facsimile: Leaf 162r of the autograph (beginning of the Pantomime)…………………. XXX Facsimile: Leaf 165r of the autograph (beginning of No. 18)………………………….. XXXI Facsimile: Leaf 232r of the autograph (from No. 25)………………………………….. XXXII Facsimile: Leaf 236r of the autograph (from No. 25)…………………………………... XXXIII Facsimile: Leaf 242ar of the autograph (from No. 25)…………………………………. XXXIV Facsimiles: Title page, dramatis personae, and beginning of the first act from the text-book, Salzburg, 1769……………………………………………………….... XXXV Dramatis Personae, orchestral scoring…………………………………………………… 2 Index of Scenes and Numbers……………………………………………………………. 3 Sinfonia…………………………………………………………………………………... 5 Atto primo………………………………………………………………………………... 25 Sub-volume 2 Index of Scenes and Numbers……………………………………………………………. V Atto secondo……………………………………………………………...……………… 167 Atto terzo………………………………………………………………………………… 301 Appendix 1. Original end of No. 2………………………………………………………………….. 403 2. Original version of No. 5……………………………………………………………… 403 3. Original end of No. 8…………………………………………………………………... 411 4. Original end of No. 11…………………………………………………………………. 412 5. Original end of No. 16…………………………………………………………………. 413 6. Original end of No. 17…………………………………………………………………. 413 7. Original end of No. 22…………………………………………………………………. 414 8. Original version of No. 23…………………………………………………………….. 414 9. Original version of No. 25…………………………………………………………….. 420 International Mozart Foundation, Online Publications VI New Mozart Edition II/5/2/1-2 La finta semplice EDITORIAL PRINCIPLES The New Mozart Edition (NMA) provides for research volumes are indicated, for which the following scheme purposes a music text based on impeccable scholarship applies: letters (words, dynamic markings, tr signs and applied to all available sources – principally Mozart’s numbers in italics; principal notes, accidentals before autographs – while at the same time serving the needs principal notes, dashes, dots, fermatas, ornaments and of practising musicians. The NMA appears in 10 Series smaller rests (half notes, quarters, etc.) in small print; subdivided into 35 Work Groups: slurs and crescendo marks in broken lines; grace and ornamental notes in square brackets. An exception to I: Sacred Vocal Works (1–4) the rule for numbers is the case of those grouping II: Theatrical Works (5–7) triplets, sextuplets, etc. together, which are always in III: Songs, Part-Songs, Canons (8–10) italics, those added editorially in smaller print. Whole IV: Orchestral Works (11–13) measure rests missing in the source have been V: Concertos (14–15) completed tacitly. VI: Church Sonatas (16) The title of each work as well as the VII: Large Solo Instrument Ensembles (17–18) specification in italics of the instruments and voices at VIII: Chamber Music (19–23) the beginning of each piece have been normalised, the IX: Keyboard Music (24–27) disposition of the score follows today’s practice. The X: Supplement (28–35) wording of the original titles and score disposition are provided in the Critical Commentary in German. The For every volume of music a Critical original notation for transposing instruments has been Commentary (Kritischer Bericht) in German is retained. C-clefs used in the sources have been replaced available, in which the source situation, variant by modern clefs. Mozart always notated singly readings or Mozart’s corrections are presented and all occurring sixteenth, thirty-second notes etc. crossed- other special problems discussed. through, (i.e. instead of ); the notation Within the volumes and Work Groups the therefore does not distinguish between long or short completed works appear in their order of composition. realisations. The NMA generally renders these in the Sketches, draughts and fragments are placed in an modern notation etc.; if a grace note of this Appendix at the end of the relevant volume. Sketches kind should be interpreted as ″short″ an additional etc. which cannot be assigned to a particular work, but only to a genre or group of works, generally appear in indication ″ ″ is given over the relevant grace note. chronological order at the end of the final volume of Missing slurs at grace notes or grace note groups as the relevant Work Group. Where an identification well as articulation signs on ornamental notes have regarding genre is not possible, the sketches etc. are generally been added without comment. Dynamic published in Series X, Supplement (Work Group 30: markings are rendered in the modern form, e.g. f and p Studies, Sketches, Draughts, Fragments, Various). Lost instead of for: and pia: compositions are mentioned in the relevant Critical The texts of vocal works have been Commentary in German. Works of doubtful adjusted following modern orthography. The realisation authenticity appear in Series X (Work Group 29). of the bass continuo, in small print, is as a rule only Works which are almost certainly spurious have not provided for secco recitatives. For any editorial been included. departures from these guidelines refer to the relevant Foreword and to the Critical Commentary in German. Of the various versions of a work or part of A comprehensive representation of the a work, that version has generally been chosen as the rd basis for editing which is regarded as final and editorial guidelines for the NMA (3 version, 1962) definitive. Previous or alternative forms are reproduced has been published in Editionsrichtlinien musikalischer in the Appendix. Denkmäler und Gesamtausgaben [Editorial Guidelines The NMA uses the numbering of the for Musical Heritage and Complete Editions]. Köchel Catalogue (KV); those numberings which differ Commissioned by the Gesellschaft für Forschung and in the third and expanded edition (KV3 or KV3a) are edited by Georg von Dadelsen, Kassel etc., 1963, pp. given in brackets; occasional differing numberings in 99-129. Offprints of this as well as the Bericht über die the sixth edition (KV6) are indicated. Mitarbeitertagung und Kassel, 29. – 30. 1981, With the exception of work titles, entries in published privately in 1984, can be obtained from the the score margin, dates of composition and the Editorial Board of the NMA. footnotes, all additions and completions in the music The Editorial Board International Mozart Foundation, Online Publications VII New Mozart Edition II/5/2/1-2 La finta semplice FOREWORD Genesis remained only general. That afternoon, the visitors from Salzburg met no important Court personalities involved During the Mozart family's second stay in Vienna with music or theatre in Vienna2. It can be attributed to (September, 1767 to 5 January 1769), the opportunity the general parsimoniousness of the Emperor and "Tout arose for Wolfgang to write an opera for this town, capi- Wien" that during the Carnival of 1768 the dazzling eve- tal of the Empire and official residence of the Royal fam- nings and balls were not given at the cost of the Court – ily. On 15 October, the Mozarts reached Vienna and as had been customary – but in public halls at the cost of stayed with the goldsmith Gottfried Johann Schmalecker the organisers. This meant that only a few renowned vir- in the Weihburggasse. Soon after their arrival, they heard tuosos could be engaged and that the planners of events Johann Adolf Hasse's two-act ‘festa teatrale’ Partenope1 and spectacles were largely out for their own advantage, in the Burgtheater. In October, a misfortune which struck especially as they had to pay the Imperial Court high Vienna did not remain without consequences for the Mo- royalties. zarts; smallpox was rampant. The elder son of the gold- Writing to Lorenz Hagenauer