Embedded Files
The Charles Bridge
Facsimile
Autograph score of Mozart's Don Giovanni
Videos
František Xaver Brixi, Organ Concerto in D, Visegrad Baroque Orchestra, on Youtube
Mozart, Don Giovanni, Salzburg, 1954, conducted by Wilhelm Furtwängler, with Cesare Siepi as Don Giovanni; with English subtitles, on Youtube
Mozart, "Bella mia fiamma, addio" (scena for Josepha Dušek), Cecilia Bartoli, on Youtube
Bertramka, a villa on the outskirts of Prague owned by František and Josepha Dušek, where Mozart stayed on some of his visits to Prague
Recordings
Mozart, La clemenza di Tito, Le Cercle de l'Harmonie, cond. Jérémie Rhorer, on Youtube
František Xaver Brixi, Missa de Gloria, Concerto Vocale München, on Youtube
František Xaver Dušek, Piano Concertos in D, E flat, and C, Karel Košárek, piano, Prague Chamber Orchestra, on Youtube
See also "Audio and Video Recordings to Accompany Anthology" (click on left)
St. Nicholas in the Malá Strana (1711–1753), an architectural celebration of the triumph of the Counter-Reformation in Bohemia
Reading
Berry, Mark. "Power and Patronage in Mozart's La clemenza di Tito and Die Zauberflöte," Cultures of Power in Europe during the Long Eighteenth Century, ed. H. M. Scott and B. P. Simms (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007), 325–47; online at academia.edu
Brown, Bruce Alan. "Leporello's 'Catalogue' Aria: The French Connection," Quinto seminario di filosofia musicale: Mozart 2006, ed. Giacomo Fornari (Pisa: Edizioni ETS, 2011), 135–75
Butler, Margaret R. “Italian Opera in the Eighteenth Century,” The Cambridge History of Eighteenth-Century Music, Simon Keefe, ed. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009), 248–50 Worldcat
In the period instrument orchestra at Drottningholm, the eighteenth-century theater near Stockholm, during the intermission of La clemenza di Tito on 24 August 2013, Stefan Harg prepares to play the basset horn solo in "Non più di fiori."
Demetz, Peter. Prague in Black and Gold: Scenes from the Life of a European City (New York: Hill and Wang, 1997) Worldcat
Durante, Sergio. “The Chronology of Mozart’s ‘La clemenza di Tito’ Reconsidered,” Music and Letters 80 (1999): 560–94 Worldcat
Freeman, Daniel. The Opera Theater of Count Franz Anton von Sporck in Prague (Stuyvesant, NY: Pendragon, 1992) Worldcat
Freeman, Daniel. Mozart in Prague (Bearclaw, 2013)
Heartz, Daniel. Mozart, Haydn, and Early Beethoven, 1781–1802 (New York: Norton, 2009), 164–97 Worldcat
Mozart's La clemenza di Tito as performed at Drottningholm, near Stockholm, in a production directed by Sigrid T'Hooft (August 2013)
Kelly, Thomas Forrest. First Nights at the Opera (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2004) Worldcat
Landon, H. C. Robbins. 1791: Mozart's Last Year (London: Thames and Hudson, 1988)
Mozart’s Don Giovanni in Prague (Prague: Theatre Institute, 1987) Worldcat
Rice, John A. W. A. Mozart: La clemenza di Tito (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991) Worldcat
Rushton, Julian. W. A. Mozart: Don Giovanni (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981) Worldcat
Sisman, Elaine. “Genre, Gesture, and Meaning in Mozart’s ‘Prague’ Symphony,” Mozart Studies 2, ed. Cliff Eisen (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997) Worldcat
Piano-vocal score of La clemenza di Tito (Hamburg, 1800), showing one of the opera's final scenes. Harvard University Library
Taruskin, Richard. The Oxford History of Western Music (New York, Oxford University Press, 2005), vol. 2, 485–96 Worldcat
Waldoff, Jessica. Recognition in Mozart's Operas (New York: Oxford University Press, 2006), 165–81, 265–308 Worldcat
Woodfield, Ian. Performing Operas for Mozart: Impresarios, Singers and Troupes (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011) Worldcat
The Nostitz Theater, now known as the Estates Theater, where Mozart conducted the first performances of Don Giovanni and La clemenza di Tito
Study Guide
Names, titles, and terms introduced in chapter 15
Vltava
Staré Mesto
Malá Strana
Battle of White Mountain
Counter-Reformation
Jesuits
Fux, Costanza e fortezza
Pasquale Bondini
Franz Xaver Niemetschek
National Theater
Mozart, Symphony in D, K. 504, "Prague"
Don Giovanni
Domenico Guardasoni
Lorenzo Da Ponte
Giovanni Bertati
Luigi Bassi
Signora Bondini
Emperor Leopold II
Caterino Mazzolà
La clemenza di Tito
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