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The Mozart Cache |
| Section: THE ARTS / MUSIC |
| Author: Peter Catalano |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 2/1/1999 |
| Size: 1,272 Words, 7,834 Characters |
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It turned out to be a fateful murmur. "I've got something interesting for you," said Hamburg music archivist Jürgen Neubacher to American musicologist David Buch in 1993--a wry, prophetic understatement. Three years later that "something interesting" wound up on the cover of the New York Times.
What Neubacher had in hand was a water-logged manuscript recently returned from Soviet archives in exchange for a dozen or so personal computers. It turned out to be an opera that Mozart collaborated on called Der Stein der Weisen oder Die Zauberinsel ("The philosopher's stone or the enchanted isle").
When a performance of Der Stein was finally ready for a public unveiling last October--in a concert version given by Martin Pearlman and his period orchestra Boston Baroque--the event was somethi...
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...Now we know that's not true.
Der Stein shows how Mozart perfected and refined a style--perhaps even the very tunes--we have come to adore in The Magic Flute. At the very least, Der Stein traces the pathway that led to the creation of The Magic Flute. In the process, Der Stein der Weisen shatters mossy stereotypes, myths, and cultural projections about this most beloved of musical figures.
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