| Title: | Surse literare latine – model și pretext în operele lui Mozart |
| Author: | Lucian Oniță |
| Publication: | Analele Universității de Vest din Timișoara. Seria Științe Filologice, LI-LII, p. 229 |
| p-ISSN: | 1224-967X |
| Publisher: | Editura Universității de Vest |
| Place: | Timișoara |
| Year: | 2013-2014 |
| Abstract: | [Latin Literary Sources – Model and Pretext in Mozart’s Operas] In this study we pursue Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s interests for classical antiquity, in a specific vision of the eighteenth century with its inherent distortions. A research of Mozart’s opera repertoire highlights a number of titles that refer directly to Roman antiquity and several types of Roman leaders, reflecting, moreover, Mozart’s interest for these leaders. Six of Mozart’s representative works are connected to Latin, pagan Ancient Rome and Roman mythology. The spirituality of XVIIth and XVIIIth centuries European history and Roman mythology had a significant role in these works. The present study is structured in several parts, not necessarily distinct. The first part focuses on descriptive and critical bibliography, classical and modern, emphsising the transition period from mythical Rome to the founding Rome. This is followed by the Republican period and ends with the great Imperial period, which reminds Mozart of the period that he lives under the reign of Joseph II. The paper follows ancient classical sources (Ovid, Titus Livius, Cicero, Tacitus) and is focused primarily on the sources of inspiration for the librettos of six of Mozart’s works, which fit the requirements of our research: Apollo et Hyacinthus, Mitridate Re di Ponto, Ascanio in Alba, Il sogno di Scipione, Lucio Silla and La Clemenza di Tito. |
| Key words: | Mozart, opera, antiquity, Rome, history, mythology |
| Language: | Romanian |
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