Finalist, Claude Palisca Award of the American Musicological Society, 2005
Mosè in Egitto
Critical Edition by
CHARLES S. BRAUNER
The Claude V. Palisca Award honors each year a scholarly edition or translation in the field of musicology, published during the previous year.
Nineteenth-century operas are notorious for concealing different versions within a single autograph manuscript. Analysis of secondary sources now restores Rossini's Mosè in Egitto beyond the deficiencies of the autograph in its present state, untangling Rossini's three versions of 1818, 1819, and 1820, reconstructing an important aria, and making overall sense, in a most lucid introduction, of an opera that has suffered more than most from hybrid performances. Charles Brauner [has produced an] exemplary –and truly critical- edition of Mosè for the Fondazione Rossini.
--Margaret Bent, award presentation, The American Musicological Society annual meeting, October 2005