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1st Italian ed. (1823)

{de} Lorenzo Da Ponte. Denkwürdigkeiten / Mein abenteuerliches Leben, tr. Eduard Burckhardt. Gotha [Germany]: Opetz, 1861. <many reprints>

Abstract

"Die einen schimpfen diesen Zeitgenossen Casanovas einen skrupellosen, durch Abenteurertum und Frauenaffären abgebrühten Opportunisten, der auf seinen Anteil am Nachruhm Mozarts spekulierte. Die anderen heben ihn als den besten Textdichter Mozarts, als Librettisten des ›Figaro‹ und ›Don Giovanni‹ in den Himmel. In seiner abenteuerlichen Autobiographie stellt Da Ponte den großen Komponisten persönlicher dar als viele Mozart-Biographen. Aber auch in Da Pontes Leben spiegelt sich eine aufregende Epoche. Er wurde 1749 in Ceneda (dem heutigen Vittorio Veneto) geboren. Seine künstlerische Glanzzeit fiel mit der Herrschaft Josefs II. zusammen. Dessen Tod bedeutete für Da Ponte das Ende des eigenen strahlenden Aufstiegs. In der Folge führte ihn ein rastloses Wanderleben durch halb Europa. Er reiste dem eigenen Ruhm hinterher bis nach New York, wo er 1838 starb."--Publisher description (2005).

"Plot and counterplot lie at the heart of Don Giovanni, Così fan tutte, and The Marriage of Figaro, the three brilliant libretti that Lorenzo Da Ponte prepared for Mozart. They were also central to Da Ponte's own extraordinary life. His Memoirs record a fantastic variety of romantic, political, and professional intrigues, and tell of meetings with a host of remarkable men. In a life that took him from the canals of Venice to the streets of New York, Da Ponte was at different times priest, professional gambler, proprietor of a bordello, political agitator, court poet, impresario, grocery store owner, and the first professor of Italian literature at Columbia University. His Memoirs, a minor classic of Italian literature, are the picaresque and engrossing story of a man of enormous talent and unsurpassed flair who was, above all, an indefatigable survivor."--Publisher description (2000).

"I shall speak of things . . . so singular in their oddity as in some manner to instruct, or at least entertain, without wearying." —Lorenzo da Ponte

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