Mozart in 1786, the Neoclassical Term Paper

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" Mozart used the play, about a maid, Susanna, who is to marry a valet, Figaro, as the story line of his opera. Together Figaro and Susana seek to outwit their master who is trying to seduce Susanna. A master had "first night rights" to the female servants when they married in those days.

Figaro" successfully champions the ingenuity of the lower classes and the wit of the female over the self-serving, arrogant nobility. The debate that followed the success of this opera is representative of the questions in everyone's minds during those years when the rights of the aristocracy were put into conflict with the rights of the common man and woman (Fiero 165).

Although Mozart appeared to be much more concerned with music and all of its forms, and kept his favored place in the eyes of the aristocracy because of his genius, he had his problems with noble patrons himself and probably was happy he had the opportunity to successfully place this controversy in front of the public.
Works Cited

Fiero, Gloria K. The Humanist Tradition, Book 4: Faith, Reason and Power in the Early Modern….....

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