!!!Da Ponte, Lorenzo eigentlich Emanuele Conegliano

b. Ceneda, Vittorio Veneto (Italy), March 10, 1749, 
d. New York (USA), Aug. 17, 1838, poet and librettist. In 1779 forced 
to leave Venetia; in 1781 travelled via Dresden (acquaintance with C. 
Mazzola) to Vienna, where he won the favour of Joseph II and 
collaborated with A.  Salieri, J. Martin y Soler and later W. A.  
Mozart; in 1791 dismissed by Leopold II; travelled to London via 
Paris; in 1805 followed his wife to New York, where he wrote his 
memoirs.

!Works
46 librettos, e.g. Le nozze di Figaro, Così fan tutte, 
Don Giovanni (Mozart); Una cosa rara (Martin y Soler); Axur, La cifra, 
Il pastor fido (Salieri).

!Literature
S. Hodges, L. D. P., the Life and Times of Mozart's 
Librettist, 1985; A. Lanapoppi, L. D. P., 1997.



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