Mozart The Marriage of Figaro K 492 - softcover (Translation: Honolka)

Editor: Finscher, LudwigTranslation: Kurt Honolka Arranger: Epplée, Eugen Orchestral scoring : 5SSolo/2TSolo/4BSolo/Mixed choir/2Fl/2Ob/2clarinet/2bassoon/2Hn/2Trp/timpani/Str/Bc Language(s) of work: I/D Product format: vocal score, Urtext edition Binding: Paperback Pages / Format: XV, 557 - 27,0 x 19,0 cm Due to numerous customer requests, Bärenreiter will be successively offering vocal scores to major Mozart operas in hardback editions again. Sturdier hardcover editions of important repertoire works are more likely to survive the rigours of a musicians's life.Premièred at the Vienna Hoftheater on 1 May 1786, Wolfang Amadeus Mozart’s and Lorenzo Da Ponte’s Le nozze di Figaro may be safely regarded as one of the greatest operatic successes of all times. Yet its success was not entirely due to Mozart’s music: on the contrary, because of the extraordinary demands it placed on the orchestra (especially the woodwinds), the music even posed an obstacle to the work’s spread outside the Germa