WeGA, Rezeptionsdokumente, Digitale Edition
author: Anonymus
source date: 1. Februar 1888
language: en
availability: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

FOREIGN NOTES.

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A series of interesting articles concerning the history of Carl Maria von Weber’s posthumous opera-fragment “Die drei Pintos,” is just now being published in the Neue Zeitschrift für Musik, from the pen of the composer’s grandson, Herr Carl von Weber, who is also the author of the completely revised libretto of the work, the musical portion whereof has recently been “completed” by Herr Mahler, of Leipzig. Without throwing, so far as they have appeared, much additional light upon the facts already known, the articles in question furnish an able and exhaustive resumé of the subject, the writer, inter alia, finally disposing of the oft-repeated assertion (originating in an erroneous statement made by the composer’s widow), according to which Weber had brought the complete score of the Pintos with him to London, where it mysteriously dissapeared after his death. The first performance of the attempted complete version of Weber’s only comic opera was definitely announced to take place at the Leipzig Stadt-Theater on the 20th ult. Its result should either make or mar the courgeous Herr Mahler’s reputation.

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