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Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus; Ryskamp, Charles; Turner, J. Rigbie, Der Schauspieldirektor (The Impressario): A facsimile of Mozart’s autograph manuscript of The Impresario in the Mary Flagler Cary Music Collection, The Pierpont Morgan Library; A Comedy with Music in One Act, K. 486 Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus; Ryskamp, Charles; Turner, J. Rigbie, Der Schauspieldirektor (The Impressario): A facsimile of Mozart’s autograph manuscript of The Impresario in the Mary Flagler Cary Music Collection, The Pierpont Morgan Library; A Comedy with Music in One Act, K. 486
• Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus; Ryskamp, Charles; Turner, J. Rigbie
  Der Schauspieldirektor (The Impressario): A facsimile of Mozart’s autograph manuscript of The Impresario in the Mary Flagler Cary Music Collection, The Pierpont Morgan Library; A Comedy with Music in One Act, K. 486
  Pierpont Morgan Library, New York, 1976, Attractive stiff blue wraps, , , Fine /
  
  

  v–xvi, 1–85 pp. [10 x 13¼ inches] oblong quarto in attractive stiff blue wraps. A facsimile of Mozart’s autograph manuscript of The Impresario in the Mary Flagler Cary Music Collection, The Pierpont Morgan Library. Der Schauspieldirektor (The Impresario)A Comedy with Music in One Act, K. 486. ?Preface by Charles Ryskamp, Director; Introduction by J. Rigbie Turner. Additionally, radiographs of watermarks and the composer's drafts and sketches in front matter. Fine. Multiple copies available. Technically not an opera but a "singspiel," The Impressario is essentially a play, preceded by an overture and interrupted by four arias. It was first performed on February 7, 1786, in a musical competition in the Schonbrunn Palace, sponsored by Joseph II. Mozart's singspiel competed directly with none other than Antonio Salieri's one-act, Prima la Musica e Poi le Parole (First the Music and Then the Words).

  
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Neue Mozart-Ausgabe / Digital Mozart Edition in cooperation with the Packard Institute

“The purpose of this web site operated by the Internationale Stiftung Mozarteum in cooperation with the Packard Humanities Institute is to make Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's musical compositions widely and conveniently accessible to the public, for personal study and for educational and classroom use. The digitized version offers the musical text and the critical commentaries of the entire Neue Mozart-Ausgabe, edited by the Internationale Stiftung Mozart in cooperation with the Mozart cities of Augsburg, Salzburg, and Vienna.”