Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and William Hogarth. The Marriage of Figaro and the Marriage according to Fashion

Abstract

The study focuses on the comic opera of high classicism; represented by W. A.

Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro and adequate changes in P.-A. Beaumarchais' socially critical comedy of the same name and a similar change in the urban genre spearheaded by William Hogarth.

The study traces the process of transformation from the late Baroque to the early (Hogarth) and high (Mozart; Beaumarchais) classicism on model works

Keywords

• Opera seria
• opera buffa
• comic opera
• the Neapolitan school
• late baroque period
• classicism
• the sonata form
• urban genre
• socially critical comedy