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“The Abduction from the Seraglio” is the last in Bärenreiter’s series of seven Great Mozart Opera Overtures based on the Urtext of the “New Mozart Edition”. It offers not only the version as Mozart left it i. e. without a concert ending but also the famous concert ending by Johann Anton André first published in 1807.

The André concert ending, approx. 90 bars long, appears here re-edited and engraved after the first edition in parts as well as Andre’s autograph which was generously made available by the Archive André.

For the first time the performance material to these seven famous opera overtures is available on sale. All parts reflect the latest scholarly research of the acclaimed New Mozart Edition.

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“I know for a fact that the Emperor is proposing to mount a German opera in Vienna, and that he is making every effort to find a young Kapellmeister who understands German, has talent and is capable of striking out on a new path. […] I think it would be a good thing for me – provided, of course, that the pay is good. If the Emperor will give me a thousand gulden, I will write a German opera for him.”

Thus Mozart in a letter of 10–11 January 1778 from Mannheim to his father, Leopold. He continued by asking his father to “write to every good friend in Vienna you can think of and say that it is in my power to do honor to the Emperor. If he won’t take me on any other terms, then let him try me with an opera. After that he can do what he likes for all I care.”