Opera

(Marvins-Underground-K-12) #1
(#1269). An inventory of 19 earlier collected editions is in Hastings (#1259),
29–30.
1256.The Librettos of Mozart’s Operas. Ed. Ernest Warburton. New York: Garland,


  1. 7v. ISBN (v.1) 0-8153-0108-1. ML49 .M83 W4.
    V.1–4, printed librettos from premieres; v.4, revivals; v.5, pasticcios to which
    Mozart contributed; v.6–7, earlier texts that were set later by Mozart.


Thematic Catalogues and Worklists



  1. Köchel, Ludwig, Ritter van. Chronologisch-thematisches Verzeichnis
    sämtlicher Tonwerke Wolfgang Amadeus Mozarts... 6th ed. Ed. Franz
    Gieglin, Alexander Weinmann and Gerd Sievers. 1,024p. Wiesbaden: Breit-
    kopf & Härtel, 1964. ML134 .M9 A3.
    First edition, 1862. The standard list, source of the identifying K-numbers.
    Works are in chronological order, with melodic incipits and references to
    sources and modern editions. Indexes to titles and first lines, general index.
    The next entry is a necessary adjunct:

  2. Zaslaw, Neal, and Fiona Morgan Fein. The Mozart Repertory: A Guide for
    Musicians, Programmers, Researchers.Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell U.P., 1991. 157p.
    ISBN 0-8014-9937-2. ML134 .M9 M83.
    Zaslaw will edit the next revision of Köchel’s Verzeichnis. This book gives sup-
    plementary entries and information to the 1964 edition and gives connections
    to the Neues Ausgabe(#1255). Material is in classified order, without index.


Bibliographies and Guides to Resources



  1. Hastings, Baird. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: A Guide to Research. Garland
    Composer Resource Manuals, 16. New York: Garland, 1989. xx, 411p. ISBN
    0-8240-8347-4. ML134 .M9 H34.
    A useful gathering of annotated citations to the principal secondary literature
    about Mozart (1,120 entries), plus various reference lists: Mozart’s pupils, his
    patrons, 150 characters in the operas, organizations devoted to him (arranged
    by city), and libraries/archives (also by city). A dictionary of Mozart’s contem-
    poraries, with connections to him noted, covers 1,400 persons. Author and
    name indexes.

  2. Angermüller, Rudolph, and Otto Schneider. Mozart-Bibliographie.. .Kassel:
    Bärenreiter, 1976–. (Title varies.) ML5 .M617; ML134 .M9 A588.
    First issued as part of the Mozart Jahrbuch 1975;then as a separate publica-
    tion, each covering a five-year period of writings (four years in the latest vol-
    ume). More than 14,000 books and articles are included, in author order, with
    full bibliographic data but without annotations. The 1992–1995 bibliography
    (published 1998) has 3,947 entries. Index of persons, places, topics, and works.
    Prior to the Angermüller series, bibliographies had been issued in volumes
    of the Mozart Jahrbuch. Rudolf Elvers and Géza Rech compiled the first one,
    covering 1945–1950 for the 1951 volume. (Elvers noted that there had been
    no Mozart bibliographies published since 1930.)


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