Don Giovanni

Don Giovanni is an opera in two acts with music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and libretto by Lorenzo da Ponte. It was premiered

Don Giovanni and other composers

The sustained popularity of Don Giovanni has result in extensive borrowings and arrangements of the original. The most famous and probably the most musically substantial is the operatic fantasy, Réminiscences de Don Juan by Franz Liszt. The minuet from the Finale of Act I makes an incongruous appearance in the manuscript of Liszt's Fantasie on Two Motives from Mozart's "Marriage of Figaro", and Sigismond Thalberg uses the same minuet, along with "Deh vieni alla finestra", in his Grand Fantaisie sur la serenade et le Minuet de Don Juan, Op. 42. "Deh vieni alla finestra" also makes an appearance in the Klavierübung of Ferruccio Busoni, under the title "Variations-Studie nach Mozart" (Variation-study after Mozart). Beethoven wrote a series of variations on the Don's aria "La ci darem la mano."

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Réminiscences de Don Juan - Franz Liszt - Minuet - Fantasie on Two Motives from Mozart's "Marriage of Figaro" - Sigismond Thalberg - Grand Fantaisie sur la serenade et le Minuet de Don Juan - Klavierübung - Ferruccio Busoni

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The music from Don Giovanni has also features in many movie soundtracks, including It Happened in Brooklyn, Parting Glances, Some Girls (film), and Madagascar Skin. The aria Il mio tesoro is used as the main theme to the classic Ealing comedy Kind Hearts and Coronets.

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Movie - Soundtracks - It Happened in Brooklyn - Parting Glances - Some Girls (film) - Madagascar Skin - Kind Hearts and Coronets

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