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[ Jul. André has lately published this interesting relic: duet, "Welch ängst-liches Beben," zur Oper "Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail " von Mozart. Offenbach: André (389 K.).]
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[ Cramer, Magazin der Musik, II., p. 1057.]
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[ In Constanze's aria the words run:— Mozart had previously written to his father (September 26, 1781): "! have altered Hui into schnell, thus: 'Doch wie schnell schwand meine Freude.' I do not know what our German poets are thinking of. Even if they do not trouble themselves to understand what is best fitted for dramatic or operatic treatment, they need not make human beings converse like pigs.">[
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[ Reichardt finds special fault with the rhyming in his Briefe über die musikalische Poesie, p. 115 (an appendix to his pamphlet on the German Comic Opera, Leipzig, 1774).]
"Doch im Hui schwand meine
Freude Trennung war mein banges;
Und nun schwimmt mein Aug' in
Thränen Kummer ruht in meinem Schooss.">[