Biblioteca Mozartiana Eric Offenbacher (BMEO): Librettos
- Bretzner, Christoph Friedrich. Die Entführung aus dem Serail. Ein Singspiel in drey Aufzügen. Nach Breznern. Die Musik von Mozart. Für die k. k. Hoftheater. Libretto. Vienna: Johann Baptist Wallishausser, 1808.Merritt Room Mus 589.206.2 BMEO. In German. Much used and in poor condition. Contains interpolated pages with text changes and stage directions.
- Broder, Nathan, et al. The Great Operas of Mozart: Complete Librettos in the Original Language with English Versions. New York: G. Schirmer, 1962; rpt., New York: Norton, 1964.Merritt Room Mus 570.73.2 BMEO. Contains essays on Mozart and on each opera.
- Da Ponte, Lorenzo. Die Hochzeit des Figaro oder Der tolle Tag. Oper in vier Aufzügen. Musik von Mozart. Libretto. Dresden: C. C. Meinhold & Söhne, s.a.Merritt Room Mus 584.499.25 BMEO. In German.
- Da Ponte, Lorenzo. Mozart. Figaros Hochzeit. Oper in vier Aufzügen. Dichtung von Lorenzo da Ponte. Libretto. Stuttgart: Als ein Versuch für das Philobiblon gesetzt und gedruckt in den Werkstätten der Württembergischen Staatlichen Kunstgewerbeschule StuttgMerritt Room Mus 584.499.30 BMEO. Text in German of Act I, Scene 1 only.
- Da Ponte, Lorenzo. Mozart's Don Juan. Revised and edited by Max Kalbeck. Vienna: Verlag von Albert J. Gutmann, 1886.Merritt Room Mus 574.479.47 BMEO. Freely revised German libretto (see also under Books).
- Da Ponte, Lorenzo. Le Nozze di Figaro, dramma giocoso in quattro atti. Le Mariage de Figaro, opéra bouffon en quatre actes. Représenté la première fois, à Paris, sur le Théâtre de l'Impératrice, le 19 Décembre 1807. Libretto. 2d ed. Paris: Au Théatre de lMerritt Room Mus 584.499.28 BMEO. In Italian and French. On page 3 it says in a footnote: "La Musique est du célèbre Mozart." This is the second edition of the original textbook for the first performance of Figaro in Paris. The new hard covers were done for E. O. in contemporary imitation. Includes an inserted typewritten slip containing a reference to a secondary source.
- Favart, Marie Justine Benoite, and Harny de Guerville. Les Amours de Bastien et Bastienne, Parodie du Devin de Village. Libretto. The Hague: Pierre Gosse Junior, 1760.Merritt Room Mus 572.150.10 BMEO. Original issue, uncut leaves, modern binding. Rare. This French text formed the basis for Friedrich Wilhelm Weiskern's free translation which Mozart used for his Singspiel "Bastien und Bastienne", K. 50/46b. Includes inserted photocopied excerpt from Otto Bacher, "Zur Geschichte der Oper auf Frankfurter Boden im 18. Jahrhundert," Zeitschrift für Musikwissenschaft 8, no. 2 (November 1925), 101.
- Molière [Jean Baptiste Poquelin]. Le Festin de Pierre. Comedie. Par J. B. P. de Moliere. Libretto. Paris: Guillaume de Luyne, 1699.Merritt Room Mus 574.479.48 BMEO. French libretto in prose. Original issue. The initials "J. B. P." on the title page stand for Jean Baptiste Poquelin, the real name of Molière. See Angermüller, Don-Juan Register (Munich, 1987), 4, about the date of the first performance for which reprints of the program are inserted in the BMEO copy. Further reference in BMEO: Alfons Rosenberg, Don Giovanni: Mozarts Oper und Don Juans Gestalt (Munich: Prestel, 1968), 58-65. Includes several insertions: photocopied excerpt from Stefan Kunze, Don Giovanni vor Mozart: Die Tradition der Don-Giovanni-Opern im Italienischen Buffa-Theater des 18. Jahrhunderts (Munich: W. Fink, 1972); two photocopied pages from a program; a typewritten note by E. O.; and a slip containing bibliographic information on this edition.
- Schikaneder, Emanuel. Die Zauberflöte. Libretto. Facsimile ed. Vienna: Ignaz Alberti, 1791; Vienna: Offizin Cyliax Druck, 1942.Merritt Room Mus 596.62.9 BMEO. Facsimile reprint of the first libretto plus an appended essay by Michael Maria Rabenlechner, published as the Jahresgabe of the Wiener Bibliophilen-Gesellschaft. Also see Alfons Rosenberg, "Versuch einer Deutung des Titel-Kupferstiches im Original- Textbuch der 'Zauberflöte' von 1791," in BMEO xerox file (typewritten reference to this article is inserted in this volume). Privately printed after 1970. Typewritten copy in BMEO xerox file.
- Schikaneder, Emanuel. Die Zauberflöte. Frankfurt and Leipzig: s.n., 1794.Merritt Room Mus 596.62.28 BMEO. Rare early libretto. Frontispiece shows Emanuel Schikaneder as Papageno in colorful engraving. See comments by Walther Brauneis on this frontispiece in Mitteilungen der Internationalen Stiftung Mozarteum 41, nos. 3-4, (November 1993), 49f.
- Schikaneder, Emanuel [J. G. K. L. Giesecke]. Die Zauberflöte. Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, s.a.Merritt Room Mus 596.62.28 BMEO. In German. The author of the introduction to this Zauberflöte libretto, Hans Michael Schletterer (1824-1893), brought out numerous opera librettos for Breitkopf & Härtel. This one may date from the 1860's. It contains the complete cast of the first performance. Among the Genii there is a Nanette Schikaneder (Emanuel's daughter?). Includes inserted typewritten note containing this information.