The impresarii chose the libretti for the composers they had engaged, partly according to the applause the subjects had already received, but more to suit the singers they had at command.
Among the libretti which Merelli had submitted was one renamed Un Giorno di Regno.
It can scarcely have been the imperfections of the libretti alone which caused Mozart to leave these operas unfinished, but also the improbability of ever bringing them to performance.
It is not critique or commentary, it is presentation, picture, narrative; it offers nothing that is not derived directly and exclusively from the Wagner libretti and scores.
None the less must the translations included in our libretti be pronounced painfully inadequate.
Tracy produced in a night two sketches oflibretti for Emilia to choose from--the Roman Clelia being one, and Camillus the other.
The masters of the eighteenth century accepted readily for their operas themes which had been treated again and again, and even actual libretti to which, several times over, music had been composed.
It has already been mentioned that he once transformed a French vaudeville into an Italian opera or operetta; and it may be added that thelibretti of Betly and of La Figlia del Reggimento are both from his pen.
Not that any rule of etiquette forbade him to take a subject already treated by another composer; Metastasio's best libretti have been set over and over again by innumerable composers.
The composers of the eighteenth century went to work over and over again on the same well-worn libretti by Apostolo Zeno, Calsabigi and Metastasio.
The French playwrights, if not good librettists themselves, are certainly cunning contrivers of plots on which good libretti may be founded.
Three libretti by him have I rejected--three, madame.
That so many people recognise the rational nature of opera in the present day is in great measure due to Wagner, since whose reforms the conventional and often idiotic libretti of former times have entirely disappeared.
They have been favourably received in Bohemia, but the thoroughly national sentiment of the libretti must naturally militate against their success elsewhere.
After 'Der Freischütz,' the libretti which he took in hand were of the most unworthy description, and even his genius has not been able to give them immortality.
Operatic composers are too often dogged by a fate which seems to compel them to wed their noblest inspirations to libretti of incorrigible dulness, and Weber was even more unfortunate in this respect than his brethren of the craft.
It must be remembered, too, that his libretti were, in some degree, official.
Apart from their revelation of Christian Weiss, the libretti of Bach's first year at Leipzig do not call for comment.
No one can read the early Leipzig libretti without being struck by the number of them that are not only uniform in structure, but similar in tone and point.
To him undoubtedly we must attribute the cold austerity of the three Muehlhausen libretti and the suppression of the personal note already sounded in Bach's Arnstadt Cantata.
Here, within the space of ten months, he produced three Cantatas, the uniform character of whose libretti points to local and transitory influence upon the composer.
Fifteen libretti are congregational hymns in their original or paraphrased form.
They are too numerous to be considered individually, and their classification is rendered difficult by the fact that the authorship of most of their libretti is conjectural and not ascertained.
Yet Bach's task must have been materially eased or aggravated according as the supply of libretti was regular or infrequent, while the flow of his inspiration must have been governed by their quality.
Even so, if we do not exaggerate his activity, Weiss seems to have written at least one-sixth of the Leipzig libretti and more than a quarter of those of the earlier period.
He betrays no recognition of the new writer, and occasionally(413) attributes his librettito Picander.
At the outset the opinion may be hazarded that the provision of his weekly libretti caused Bach greater anxiety than the setting of them to music, a task which he accomplished with almost magical facility.
Arne was the acknowledged author of the libretti of many stage-pieces and wrote the poetry of numerous songs.
Marmontel, Sedaine, and other poets offered him librettiwhich were in themselves pledges of success.
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