La clemenza di Tito is considered, even by many Mozart buffs, as a lesser opera given that it was composed under commission, that the libretto, typical of opera seria, was used at least 40 times before Mozart, and some ten later, and mostly to the use of "too many" high pitched voices. But what we forget normally is that Mozart composed for this opera music of very high quality and beauty, even under pressure given the short time allowed for the task. It is true that the recitatives, most of them composed by other person, probably Franz Suessmayer, lack the dramatic tension found in those Mozart composed for his opere buffe, or for Idomeneo. Mozart was in the summer of 1791 in a state of high creativity, as proven by Die Zauberflöte, the motet Ave Verum Corpus, or the Clarinet Concert, and La clemenza di Tito itself. Some people say the…
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