Il Dissoluto Punito osia Il Don Giovanni. Dramma giocoso in due atti - Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus 1756-1791; Da Ponte, Lorenzo 1749-1838; Neefe, Christian Gottlob 1748-1798; Wolf, Loeser Leo 1775-1840; Kinninger, Vincenz Georg 1767-1851 (Hamburg Böhme, 1801)
RISM A/I M 4508
Titel page: oval vignet illustration after Vincenz Georg Kininger (1767-1851) by Loeser Leo Wolf (1775-1840)
This is one of the early German translations/Arrangements, in bilingual vocal score. Dramaturges and translators quickly turned Don Giovanni into a Singspiel with spoken dialogue instead of recitatives, and it was in this form that most German theatre-goers got to know the opera until the middle of the nineteenth century. The very first singing translation, by the Bonn composer Christian Gottlob Neefe, was comparatively true to Da Ponte’s original (Magnus Tessing Schneider, The Original Portrayal of Mozart's Don Giovanni, Routledge, 2022)
Neefe prepared the first known German adaptation of the opera in 1788 for performances in Mannheim and Bonn in 1789. His adaptation was further revised with scenes added by the local dramaturge Heinrich Gottlieb Schmieder (1763-1815) for performance in Mainz and Frankfurt in 1789, by Friedrich Ludwig Schröder (1744-1816) for Hamburg in late 1789.
Bound in with Haydn’s ’Die Worte des Erlœsers am Kreuze’ and ‘Orfeo e Euridice’ and Cherubini’s ‘Faniska’
Contains an index
Keywords: Don Juan; 18th Century (1701-1800); Opera buffa; Arrangement; Piano; Prague (Czech Republic); Vienna (Austria)