Don Giovanni KV 527. Ouvertüre

Bars 282-285 or not? To this day, it has been impossible to ascertain exactly how Mozart wanted to end his Overture for a concert performance. Bastiaan Blomhert’s source-critical new edition, which makes use for the first time of authentic performance material revised by Mozart himself, gives the conductor the freedom to choose between the two plausible alternatives. Johann André’ s concert close, the standard ending for nearly two centuries, went down in history as a historically legitimated version.