... (Come to the window, pretty one). Don Giovanni is the drama of a libertine whose end is demonstrated to the audience. It is Mozart's genius to have combined tragic and comic elements, seduction and passion into a unity. He depicts individual scenes quite accurately, without propagating naturalistic ... slightly altered descent. After the transition from D minor to D major, we hear the main theme of this overture, bars 31-35. In this theme Mozart briefly characterizes his hero: driving passion (bars1-4), frivolity (5-6), gallant appearances (Bars 7-8) are reflected. A kind of codetta lea...

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