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It is evident that Beethoven enjoyed working on the Mass, and was quite at home in this form of composition. Here was plain sailing; he knew what he wanted to do, and went at it without hesitation. There is none of that doubt and groping which is the case with Fidelio, which was continually being worked over, and in reality, never was finished.
The Daughter of an Obscure German Pastor. She studies Music in Paris. Failure of her Voice. Makes her Début at La Fenice. She appears in London during the Lind Excitement. Description of her Voice and Person. A Great Excitement over her Second Appearance in Italy. Début in Paris. Her Grand Impersonation in "Fidelio." Critical Estimates of her Genius. Sophie Cruvelli's Eccentricities.
Properly to hear and appreciate the opera of Fidelio or Don Giovanni or the Seventh Symphony of Beethoven requires as much exercise of brain as to listen to a scientific lecture. I do not deny its value as an influence, but it is a positive value, not a negative one.
And they have even given the classic masterpieces of opera there: Fidelio, Orfeo, Alceste, the two Iphigénies; and taken more pains with them and mounted them with more pious zeal than they do at the Opera. The operas themselves are more at home there, too, for the size of the theatre is more like that of the eighteenth-century theatres.
Later, the experience which he gained with Fidelio showed him that the libretto of an opera is indeed a very important matter; then he went to the other extreme, and was unable to find anything which would satisfy him, although many libretti were submitted to him at various times during the remainder of his life. A quantity of them were found among his papers after his death.
At what hour shall we call on Walter to-day? My going or not depends entirely on you. Your I hope you forgive me for not having come to you. Your displeasure would be totally undeserved, and I will amply compensate for lost time in a few days. My Opera of "Fidelio" is again to be performed, which gives me a great deal to do; moreover, though I look well, I am not so in reality.
He advised him to do what he himself had done to "Fidelio," cut out nearly a third of the score. Weber took this advice, and remade parts of the opera, where he deemed it necessary. The strain of the production of "Euryanthe" told severely on the composer's delicate health, and he returned to Dresden in an exhausted state. There was no rest for him here, as official duties were pressing.
A translation of the original programme of that performance, with the exception of the usual price of admissions, is appended: Imperial and Royal Theatre An der Wien. New Opera. To-day, Wednesday, 20 November, 1805, at the Imperial and Royal Theatre An der Wien, will be given for the first time. FIDELIO; Or, Conjugal Love.
Pizarro is forced to hurry off to receive his guest, and the husband and wife rush into each other's arms. The closing scene shows the discomfiture and disgrace of Pizarro, and the restoration of Florestan to his lost honours and dignity. The form of 'Fidelio, like that of "Die Zauberflöte," is that of the Singspiel.
How different is the plot of 'Fidelio, where one can yield oneself to the beauty of the music and the pathos of the story without a single jarring sensation! Let the masters then beware! Music is essentially pure, and should never by great minds be wedded to coarse ideas. The subject must have an influence upon the immortality of the work.
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