Mozart's The marriage of Figaro : adapted for Covent Garden, 1819 / Henry Rowley Bishop ; edited by Christina Fuhrmann.

Author/creator Bishop, Henry R.
Format Musical Score
Publication InfoMiddleton, Wis. : A-R Editions, ©2012.
Description1 vocal score (xix, 270 pages, 9 unnumbered pages of plates) : facsimiles ; 31 cm.
Subjects

Other author/creatorFuhrmann, Christina editor.
Other author/creatorMozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791. Nozze di Figaro.
Other author/creatorHolcroft, Thomas, 1745-1809. Follies of a day.
Other author/creatorBeaumarchais, Pierre Augustin Caron de, 1732-1799. Mariage de Figaro.
Uniform titleMarriage of Figaro. Vocal score
Portion of title Marriage of Figaro
SeriesRecent researches in the music of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, 0193-5364 ; 55
Recent researches in the music of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries ; v. 55. ^A172851
General noteComic opera in 3 acts.
General note"Bishop translated [Mozart's] opera in English, replaced recitative with spoken dialogue ... cut over half the score, inserted twelve new pieces, and drew additional material from [four other operas]"--Introduction, p. ix.
General noteLibretto by the composer, after Thomas Holcroft's The follies of a day and Beaumarchais's La folle journée, i.e., Le mariage de Figaro.
General noteEdited principally from: The marriage of Figaro : a comic opera in three acts as performed at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden / partly selected from Mozart, partly composed, and the whole adapted to the English stage, and arranged from the score by Henry R. Bishop (London : Goulding, D'Almaine, Potter, 1819) (Library of Congress shelf mark M1503.B59 M52 1819z).
General noteIncludes introd. and critical report.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references.
ISBN9780895797209
ISBN0895797208

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