Valentino Fioravanti and the Duet from the Opera ‘Echo W Lesie’ [An Echo in the Woods] by Wojciech Pękalski and Józef Elsner
Jakub Chachulski
Institute of Art, Polish Academy of Sciences (Poland)
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8972-1490
Abstract
One of the six numbers in the one-act opera Echo w lesie [An echo in the woods], previously considered to be the work of Józef Elsner, actually uses music (in a virtually unaltered form) from Valentino Fioravanti’s opera Il furbo contra il furbo (the duet ‘Con un aria schizzinosa’). The borrowing, although acknowledged on the poster for the work’s premiere, has remained unidentified until now. This discovery invalidates some of the theses of my own paper titled ‘Echo w lesie Józefa Elsnera i Wojciecha Pękalskiego – późny pogłos włoskiego intermezza na warszawskiej scenie narodowej?’ [Józef Elsner and Wojciech Pękalski’s An Echo in the Woods: a late reference to Italian intermezzi in the repertoire of Warsaw’s National Theatre?] (Muzyka, 65/2, 2020), but at the same time contributes new arguments in favour of recognising the preserved score of Echo as that used for the work’s premiere.
Keywords:
Joseph Elsner, Valentino Fioravanti, An echo in the woods, Il furbo contro il furbo, opera, intermezzo, opera buffa
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Jakub ChachulskiInstitute of Art, Polish Academy of Sciences Poland
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8972-1490
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