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Don Giovanni (Mozart - Da Ponte) - From Legend to Myth (Paperback)
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Don Giovanni (Mozart - Da Ponte) - From Legend to Myth (Paperback)
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Loot Price R530
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One of the most used and abused myths in literature, music, and art
in general - and even common discourse - is without doubt that of
Don Juan. Revised countless times by diverse artistic
personalities, and originating in popular legend, Don Juan was
first given literary personality in the tragic drama El burlador de
Sevilla (1630), attributed to the Spanish dramatist Tirso de
Molina. Through a literary selection composed by the most
significant accounts, one participates in a parable in which the
myth starts from a seventeenth century conception (in which those
who violate the law are condemned), passes to a romantic one in
which those who transgress are self-conscious at the same time, and
finally funnels through the dawn of the twentieth century (in which
the rebellion against social laws is seen as normal). Ethical
individualism becomes a tragic but necessary choice - to finally
arrive at the mythical contemporary interpretation in which the
hero rejects the bourgeois values of society preferring geometric
abstraction or neurosis to the real and sensitive universe.
However, it is in the transposition to music that the myth of the
impertinent libertine acquires a unique fascination, because it has
sprung from the familiar, sensual and mysterious fusion of such
seemingly different languages but which in substance create, in
complete unison, the trait d'union between the living being and the
sublime. From the seventeenth century onwards, there are many works
inspired by this character, including opera and dance. Without a
doubt, the most known work comes from the exceptional nature of the
Mozart-Da Ponte. The present work, inspired by some critical
reflections, deals with the meeting between an extraordinarily
malleable myth, a composer and a librettist capable of recognizing,
and lifting to unthinkable heights, the symbolic components of the
ancient legend, sealing a unique alchemy able to transmit even the
smallest nuances of human nature.
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