The people were Mozart, Salieri, Da Ponte and a person called Cornetti, who we don’t know anything about.” “So the famous musicians took this as a chance to present a new short piece to celebrate her return on the stage. It happened in June 1785 and she lost her voice for almost four months. A famous singer for the Viennese Hofoper, the court opera, an English-Italian singer Nancy Storace, fell ill while performing in an opera of her brother Steven Storace. “It was composed in 1785 for a special opportunity. “When I was browsing through the catalogue of the Czech Museum of Music and I read the title, I was thrilled to see it there.”Ĭan you tell me more about the piece? When was it composed and what kind of composition is it? But it is not quite clear how it appeared in that person’s archive.”
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“As far as I know it came from an archive of a nobleman that was brought to the Museum of Music in the 1950s or 1960s. How did it actually get to the Czech Museum of Music? So I immediately tried to get in contact with the Museum of Music.” “I was sure it had to be, because all the facts clicked into the place: the composers, Lorenzo da Ponte as a poet, and the date 1785, which was also correct. So when you saw the title you knew immediately that this was the lost composition? “So I was well-aware of the title and when I was browsing through the catalogue of the Czech Museum of Music and I read the name, I was thrilled to see it there.” And all the Salierians, as I call them, wished to find that piece because it could shed a light on the relationship between Mozart and Salieri.” “This piece was like a phantom many researchers had been hunting, because it shows another angle on the relationship between Mozart and Salieri. I wrote my thesis on Salieri, on the German language staged works, so I was well-aware of all the music Salieri had written. “I came across the title when I was doing research on Salieri. When I spoke to Mr Hermann I first asked him whether he actually knew about the existence of the composition: The long-lost score was discovered by a German composer and musicologist Timo Jouko Herrmann, while he was searching the archives of the museum for pieces by Salieri’s students. Timo Jouko Herrmann, photo: CTK The cantata called ‘Per la Ricuperata Salute di Ofelia’ or ‘For the recovered health of Ophelia,’ was written to celebrate the recovery of a famous singer of the Viennese court opera.