Don Giovanni unter Druck

The great and worldwide attention that Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Don Giovanni received in music historiography has long concealed the fact, that the earliest form of its dissemination and appropriation took place on a small scale: the arrangement. Up until 1850, arrangements of Don Giovanni were edited in the German-speaking countries in ever-increasing numbers and for various instrumental chamber music ensembles. Andrea Klitzing researched more than 300 Don Giovanni-arrangements and summarized them in a table with exceptionally detailed information. The book "Don Giovanni unter Druck" is devoted to the contextualization and interpretation of those print editions. It allows a re-evaluation of the arrangement in general and lights up its music-historiographical and epistemological significance.