The Stuttgart Adonis: a recently rediscovered opera by Johann Sigismund Cousser?

Musical Times | October 1, 2006| | Copyright

THE WÃRTTEMBERGISCHE LANDESBIBLIOTHEK in Stuttgart holds 3 rare treasure from the early history of German-language opera that has lain undisturbed and unnoticed for many years.1 While the library suffered substantial losses during World War II, its collection does retain a small portion of the music manuscripts formerly belonging to the public library established in 1765 by Duke Carl Eugen of Wurttemberg (1728-93). The handwritten catalogue of the Codices musices II series, today housed in the institution's manuscript department, opens with a somewhat mysterious pair of entries describing an ...

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