ABDUCTION FROM THE SARAGLIO by W A MOZART
THE ABDUCTION FROM THE SARAGLIO by W. ... MOZART When Mozart composed The Abduction from the Seraglio in 1782, he was approximately twenty six years old, and he was deeply in love with Konstanze Weber, who was his fiancée whom he named the heroine of the story of the opera after . ... The libretto of the opera came to Stephanie and Mozart ready-made. ... The story and music of The Abduction were part of this Turkish craze. However what Mozart impresses as Turkish melodies doesn’t have precise relationship with the actual; it’s actually his point of view of Turkish music style. Probably Mozart was affected by the Ottoman “mehter” visiting Vienna from time to time and as a result he used mostly percussion instruments and created his way of Turkish music which is more exotic than it really is.