- Holmes, William C. “La Statira” by Pietro Ottoboni and Alessandro Scarlatti:
The Textual Sources, with a Documentary Postscript. Monographs in Musi-
cology, 2. New York: Pendragon, 1983. vii, 92p. ISBN 0-918728-18-5.
ML410 .S22 H6.
A comparison of the printed libretto with a working autograph and an exami-
nation of both texts in the context of four surviving copies of the score. Vari-
ants and corrections are explicated. Documents of 1690 about the opera are
reproduced. In the course of this scholarly analysis, the circumstances of opera
production in Rome are exhibited.
Telemaco
IO–1640,v.23.
Tigrane
OAS,v.8.
- Collins, Michael. “An Introduction to Alessandro Scarlatti’s Tigrane.” In
Essays on Music(#67), 82–102.
Genesis, libretto sources, reception history, and program notes, with discus-
sion of the four surviving manuscripts. - Pauly, Reinhard G. “Alessandro Scarlatti’s Tigrane.” M&L35 (1954): 339–
Describes the surviving score, which includes stage directions. It seems to be
from a later performance, not from the premiere, since the role of Tigrane
appears to have been transposed for a castrato.
Arnold Schoenberg (1874–1951)
This is the spelling preferred by the composer in his later years; however, the Library
of Congress retains Schönberg, as do most German writers.
Editions
- Schönberg, Arnold. Sämtliche Werke.Ed. Rudolf Stephan, for the Akademie
der Kunste, Berlin. Mainz: Schott; Vienna: Universal, 1966–. No ISBN. M3
.S36.
In progress. Abteilung 3 is for stage works. Von heute auf morgenhas been
published (1972–1974; 2v.), and so has Moses und Aron(1977–1980; 3v.)
These are orchestra scores, with extensive critical apparatus in German and
English.
Biographies
- Reich, Willi. Schoenberg: A Critical Biography.Trans. Leo Black. London:
Longman, 1971. xi, 268p. ISBN 0-582-12753-X. ML410 .S283 R43.
Originally Schönberg, oder der konservative Revolutionär (Vienna: Molden,
1968). A general life and works, footnoted, with program notes on the operas.
Worklist in the translation has titles in English only; in the German edition
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