Mozart Versus Salieri: Rivalry

Mozart / Salieri / Benda,christian

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Mozart Versus Salieri: Rivalry

Mozart / Salieri / Benda,christian

Mozart versus Salieri: Rivalry? Includes two complete symphonies by Mozart (No. 35, "Haffner", No. 38, "Prague") as well as his "Six German Dances" K. 509 and many overtures. These works are juxtaposed with Overtures by Antonio Salieri.

The recording's most interesting work is "Per la ricuperata salute di Ofelia", K. 477a, written for the soprano Nancy Storace. K. 4771 is a solo cantata for soprano and fortepiano composed in 1785 by Antonio Salieri and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, formerly thought to have been enemies, and a third, unknown composer, Cornetti, to a libretto written by the Vienna court poet Lorenzo Da Ponte. It is speculated that "Cornetti" may refer to Alessandro Cornetti, a vocal teacher and composer active in Vienna at the time, or that it is a pseudonym of either Salieri or Stephen Storace, a composer who organized the collaborative work to honor his famous sister. The music had been considered lost until November 2015, when German musicologist and composer Timo Jouko Herrmann identified the score while searching for music by one of Salieri's ostensible pupils, Antonio Casimir Cartellieri, in the archives of the Czech Museum of Music in Prague.

World premiere recording of "Per la ricuperata salute di Ofelia", K. 477a, in a version for orchestra and soprano. Orchestration by Christian Benda.

More than two hours of music for the price of one CD!

PRAGUE SINFONIA ORCHESTRA/CHRISTIAN BENDA

Media	Music CD (Compact Disc)
Number of discs	2
Composer	Prague Sinfonica Orchestra, Benda Christian
Released	April 12, 2019
EAN/UPC	0190759195925
Label	SONY CLASSICAL SOIP9195925.2
Genre	Orchestral Music
Dimensions	125 × 141 × 10 mm · 112 g
Conductor	Christian Benda
Orchestra	Prague Symphony Orchestra