KV 577 "Al desio di chi t'adora"
Alternative aria to No.27 "Deh vieni"

This work was composed in July 1789 as an alternative aria for Susanna's
"Deh vieni", sung by Adriana Ferrarese del Bene in the Vianna production
of 1789.

That production also saw "Venite, inginocchiatevi!" replaced by KV 579
"Un moto di gioa" (see Nozze12a). The text to both arias is probably by
da Ponte. While KV 577 enjoyed quite a success and was distributed widely,
i.a. in a handwritten piano reduction by Lorenz Lausch, KV 579 was largely
neglected. In recent times, Cecilia Bartoli apparently insisted -much to 
Jonathan Miller's dismay- on using these two works in four out of eight
performances in a production at the New York Metropolitan Opera (1998). The
broadcast version of that production also uses these alternative arias.

This MOZART transcription uses several times the method of splitting a note
to achieve an sfz effect. Also, MOZART cannot show the second basset horn in
the same notation as the original score from the Mozarteum: there, the
instrument's notes which are notated in bass clef have an implicit 8va -
due to a bug in MOZART it is shown here explicitly.

There is no score Nozze27a1 which would have been the piano reduction of
this aria; to my knowledge, it exists only in two editions: Simrock, 1796
and 1819, piano reduction by CG Neefe. I don't have access to those.

June 2007: MOZART V-9.2.2 now can hide 8va/8vb signs which run across a
           line break.

Michael Bednarek
mb@mbednarek.com http://mbednarek.com/