Vestas Feuer by Pamina and Papageno in "The Magic Flute"), which has the same key and time signature and was the subject of a set of variations for cello and piano by Beethoven (WoO 46), written 1801. Lockwood also discerns a precedent set by Mozart involving formal structure: an "Introduzione"; i.e. Beethoven's scene forms a separable initial section of an opera having some degree of integrity of both plot and harmonic plan; Lockwood calls the "Introduzione" a "miniplay". Three of Mozart's operas begin with such an "Introduzione": "Don Giovanni", "Così fan tutte", and "The Magic Flute". Beethoven's "Introduzione" has a harmonic structure
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Prague Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Prague There is no question that the Praguers of the late eighteenth century exhibited a special appreciation for the music of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, even though, as recently pointed out by Daniel E. Freeman, confirmations of this fact attributed to Mozart himself in sayings such as "" ("My Praguers understand me") have only come down to posterity second or third hand. Perhaps the most valuable direct testimony that attests to the discernment of the musical public in Prague with regard to Mozart's music comes from Lorenzo Da Ponte, the librettist of Mozart's opera "Don Giovanni", which