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5724	Krehbiel, Henry Edward	A Book of Operas: Their Histories, Their Plots, and Their Music			.txt	text/plain	84741	4177	71	--The plot of the opera--Gounod on the beautiful in Mozart's music The love story in Gounod's opera--Ancient bondsmen of the devil-Music in the mediaeval Faust plays--Early operas on the subject-Meyerbeer and Goethe's poem--Composers of Faust music--Beethoven-into an opera by Raoul Gunsbourg--The composer's "Scenes from Faust" opera troupe to visit the New World, performed it in Italian on The opera, like all the old works of the lyrical stage, precede the story of the opera as it came from Mozart's hand. Mozart composed "Don Giovanni" for the Italian Opera at Prague, opera "Faust," went for their subject to Goethe's dramatic poem. The opera begins, like Goethe's dramatic poem, after the prologue, he called his opera "Mefistofele," not "Faust," he drew its scenes, drawn from the music of the opera; but, like the prelude to Wagner's German opera at Prague, and when he was called to be Court Music	./cache/5724.txt	./txt/5724.txt