Der Stein Der Weisen

Edited by David J. Buch. From the Recent Researches in the Music of the Classical Era Series. This is the heroic-comic opera that provided the model for Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's "Die Zauberflote." Emanuel Schikaneder wrote the libretto based on the same collection of fairy tales. This modern edition is based on a recently rediscovered Viennese manuscript now in Hamburg, with variants from the other surviving Viennese sources. The introduction discusses the historical and theatrical context, composers, revivals, reception, and relationship to "Die Zauberflote." The edition also provides the libretto with an English translation, facsimiles of selected pages from the primary sources, and a critical apparatus with discussion of the sources and critical notes. Score, 332 p.