[5] Conceived, written and composed to celebrate the newly recovered health of Nancy Storace, the Vienna-based, Anglo-Italian soprano destined to become the first Susanna of Figaro, and to welcome her back to the stage after a temporary loss of her singing voice owing to a nervous breakdown,[4] the short work is compelling evidence of what may indeed have been an amicable and cooperative relationship between Salieri and Mozart.

Storace returned to the stage on September 19 in Giovanni Paisiello's opera Il Re Teodoro in Venezia – a performance the cantata clearly refers to in stanza 27 – and exactly a week later the cantata was announced in the local newspapers Das Wienerblättchen and Wiener Realzeitung, which advertised copies for sale by Viennese publisher Artaria & Co.[7][8] The premiere of Salieri's new opera finally took place on October 12.

Found amongst a bevy of confiscated property[7] acquired during the 1950s and bearing the names of Mozart and Salieri "in a kind of signature code that was common at the time," according to Michal Lukeš, General Director of the Czech National Museum,[9] the printed libretto reveals only the author's pseudonym, the year of publication, the printer's name (Joseph von Kurzböck) and the first letters of the surnames of the composers.

"[1] Ulrich Leisinger, Director of the Research Department at the International Mozarteum Foundation, has said: We all know the picture drawn by the movie Amadeus.

[12][better source needed] Later the same day, the International Mozarteum Foundation presented the work at the Mozarts' residence, the Tanzmeisterhaus Salzburg, performed by Claire Elizabeth Craig (soprano) and Florian Birsak (fortepiano).

[13] The first performance at a concert directed to a general audience occurred in Canberra, Australia, on April 9, 2016, again with Australian soprano Kate Rafferty.

The concert featured Spanish conductor and musician Ernesto Monsalve [es] (harpsichord) and Sara Rodríguez (soprano).

[15][16][17] A recording of the piece was made by Irena Troupová (soprano) and Lukáš Vendl (harpsichord) and was broadcast on March 13, 2016, by the Czech Radio affiliate Vltava.

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