On December 3, 1778, from Mannheim, Mozart wrote to his father: “To please Herr von Gemmingen and myself I am now composing the first act of the declaimed opera (which I was commissioned to write)...Read more

On December 3, 1778, from Mannheim, Mozart wrote to his father: “To please Herr von Gemmingen and myself I am now composing the first act of the declaimed opera (which I was commissioned to write) and I am also doing this for nothing; I shall bring it with me and finish it at home…Herr von Gemmingen is the poet, of course—and the duodrama is called Semiramis”. Nothing else is known of this duodrama. In an 1994 article Laurenz Lutteken believes some of Thamos music originally for Semiramis project.

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