| Per la ricuperata salute di Ofelia | |
|---|---|
| Solo cantata by Salieri, Mozart and Cornetti | |
 Display of the score, which was believed lost, at the Czech Museum of Music in Prague (2016) | |
| English | For the recovered health of Ophelia |
| Catalogue | K.6 477a |
| Text | Lorenzo Da Ponte |
| Language | Italian |
| Composed | 1785 |
| Scoring | soprano and fortepiano |
Per la ricuperata salute di Ofelia (For the recovered health of Ophelia), K.6 477a, is a solo cantata for soprano and fortepiano composed in 1785 by Antonio Salieri and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and a third, unknown composer, Cornetti, to a libretto written by the Vienna court poet Lorenzo Da Ponte.[1][2] It is speculated that "Cornetti" may refer to Alessandro Cornetti, a vocal teacher and composer active in Vienna at the time,[3] or that it is a pseudonym of either Salieri or Stephen Storace, a composer who organized the collaborative work to honor his famous sister.[4] The music had been considered lost until November 2015, when German musicologist and composer Timo Jouko Herrmann identified the score while searching for music by one of Salieri's ostensible pupils, Antonio Casimir Cartellieri, in the archives of the Czech Museum of Music in Prague.[5]
- ^ Anon., "Mozart and Salieri 'lost' composition played in Prague", BBC News, February 16, 2016.
- ^ Woodfield, I., Cabals and Satires: Mozart's Comic Operas in Vienna (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019), pp. 17–18.
- ^ Keefe, S. P., Mozart Studies 2 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015), p. 111.
- ^ Selby, A., "Anna Selina (Nancy) Storace—Mozart's English rose and first Susanna", The Classical Music Guide, November 14, 2007.
- ^ Muller, R., and Kahn, M., "Czech musician performs long-lost Mozart score for first time", Reuters, February 16, 2016.