Valentino Fioravanti i duet z opery „Echo w lesie” Wojciecha Pękalskiego i Józefa Elsnera
Valentino Fioravanti and the Duet from the Opera ‘Echo w lesie’ by Wojciech Pękalski and Józef Elsner

Summary/Abstract: One of the six numbers in the one-act opera ‘Echo w lesie’ [An echo in the woods], previously considered to be the work of Józef Elsner, actually uses music (in a virtually unaltered form) from Valentino Fioravanti’s opera ‘Il furbo contra il furbo’ (the duet ‘Con un aria schizzinosa’). The borrowing, although acknowledged on the poster for the work’s premiere, has remained unidentified until now. This discovery invalidates some of the theses of my own paper titled ‘Echo w lesie’ Józefa Elsnera i Wojciecha Pękalskiego – późny pogłos włoskiego intermezza na warszawskiej scenie narodowej?’ [Józef Elsner and Wojciech Pękalski’s Echo w lesie: a late reference to Italian intermezzi in the repertoire of Warsaw’s National Theatre?] (‘Muzyka’ 65 (2020) nr 2), but at the same time contributes new arguments in favour of recognising the preserved score of ‘Echo’ as that used for the work’s premiere.

• Details
• Contents