Tom Service on the Don Giovanni manuscript

'Reading Mozart's scores is a revelation'To see the real Mona Lisa, you have to go to the Louvre. To see a "real" opera by Mozart, all you have to do is pop along to your local opera house.The culture of classical music is about repeatable experiences, not singular objects. And yet it does have treasures as magical and enduring as anything by Da Vinci. In 1855, for instance, the celebrated soprano Pauline Viardot bought Mozart's manuscript of Don Giovanni, the original source of what was then c...

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