Bastien und Bastienne

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Bastien und Bastienne. Singspiel in 1 act, K50, by the 12-year-old Mozart to lib. by Friedrich Wilhelm Weiskern, after Favart's parody on Rousseau's Le Devin du village (1752). Prod. in the garden th. of Mesmer, the introducer of mesmerism, Vienna, 1768; not again perf. until Berlin 1890; London 1894; NY 1916.

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