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[ "Zaide," Oper in zwei Acten von W. A. Mozart. Score (and pianoforte arrangement). Offenbach: Joh. André. André has added an overture and a closing chorus for the purpose of performance, to which there can be no objection. Mozart's composition is given intact, but the text has been altered by C. Gollmick. Schachtner's libretto is truly insufferable, but it is indispensable to the critical examination of Mozart's music.]
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[ Schachtner has evidently imitated a French original, but I have not been able to discover it. I have failed to procure an opera entitled "Zaide," in three acts, by La Mare, composed by Royer (1739).]
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[ The resemblance of some situations to the "Entfuhrung" is as striking as the difference of the two works on the whole. An Osmin appears as a secondary character, and sings a comic aria in the second act, which seems to have no immediate connection with the action. The disclosure of the flight was made in the original by Zaram, not by Osmin.]
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[ This part did not satisfy Mozart, and he composed it again.]
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[ Castil-Blaze, Molière Musicien, II., p. 423.]