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The Qualities of Quantities Mozart, ‘Madamina, il catalogo è questo’ (Leporello), Don Giovanni, Act I

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 September 2016

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Roger Moseley, Cornell University; roger.moseley@cornell.edu.

References

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9 Mozart, letter to Maria Anna Thekla Mozart of 13 November 1777, in Mozart: Briefe und Aufzeichnungen, 2: 121–2.

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12 K. 452, the Quintet for Keyboard and Winds that is musically indexed by the Andante con moto of Leporello’s aria, appears on the first page of Mozart’s catalogue.

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15 Schmitt in Kittler, Gramophone, Film, Typewriter, 234.

16 Kierkegaard, Either/Or, 1: 96.

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18 On the historiographical imbrication of financial and aesthetic criteria in the evaluation of Mozart’s output, see Chua, Daniel K. L., ‘Myth: Mozart, Money, Music’, in Mozart Studies, ed., Simon P. Keefe (Cambridge, 2006), 193213 Google Scholar.