Berthold Over is a visiting research fellow at Goldsmiths, University of London (2023-2024) and works as a research associate at Zentrum für Telemann-Pflege und -Forschung in Magdeburg. Between 2009 and 2021 he took part in international research projects at the universities of Greifswald and Mainz investigating the 18th-century pasticcio, the mobility and migration of music and musicians in the 18th century, and the Roman cantata of Händel's time. He has discovered previously unknown autographs by Vivaldi, Händel, and Mahler.
Gesa zur Nieden is a professor of musicology at Universität Greifswald, with research interests in 18th-century music theatre, the reception of Richard Wagner since 1945, and music and memory in pluralistic social contexts. After completing her PhD in Paris and Bochum, she worked as a professor in Mainz and Hannover. Since 2010 she has co-led three international research projects: two on the mobility of early modern musicians and one on 18th-century operatic pasticcios.

Frontmatter 1
Content 5
Introduction 9
The World of Pasticcio Reflections on Pre-Existing T ext and Music 27
Italian Pasticcio Opera, 1700-1750 Practices and Repertoires 45
Antoine Watteau's pasticci 71
Pasticcio Practice in 18th-Century German Theater 103
Adaptations of Stage Directions and Stage Designs in Pietro Metastasio' s drammi per musica 117
Between Dwarfs and Giants. Aesthetics of the Pasticcio between London and Hamburg 153
The Musical pasticcio: A Plea for a Readymade Ontology for the Musical Work 181
Pasticcio en littérature? 197
On the New Significance of the Pastiche in Copyright Law 211
A Voice of Two Cities: Francesco Borosini between the Habsburg Court and the Royal Academy 225
Debts and Destiny New Findings on Antonio Maria Peruzzi and the Origin of His Opera Touring Business 241
Italian operisti, Repertoire and the aria di baule: Insights from the Pirker Correspondence 271
Dido Abandoned? Shifts of Focus and Artistic Choices in Didone Pasticcios of the Mingotti Opera T roupe 285
Palladio as a Tool for opera buffa Research. Mapping Opera Troupes and opera buffa Outside of Italy (1745-1765) 329
Collaboration, Arrangement, 'Dressing': The Different Recipes for the pasticcio alla napoletana in the First Half of the 18th Century 349
Production of Opera Pasticcios in Venice in the Early 18th Century. The Impresario's Role 377
Artaserse (Rome, 1721), Nicola Porpora's First Pasticcio 397
Singers of the V iennese Kärntnertortheater in the 1730s in the Light of Aria Substitutions and Pasticcios 425
The Book of Pasticcios: Listening to Ormisda's Material Texts 447
Borrowed Voices. Legal Ownership of Insertion Arias in 18th-Century London 465
Local Conditions of Pasticcio Production and Reception: Between Prague, W rocaw and Moravia 485
The Graz 1740 Pasticcio Amor, odio e pentimento: A Special Case or Mingottis' s Common Practice? 507
A Granted Royal Wish, or Carlo Goldoni' s La buona figliuola with Music by Niccolò Piccinni and Il mercato di Malmantile with Music by Domenico Fischietti, Staged in Warsaw in 1765 527
Bad Habits in Theater - Late Forms of Operatic Pasticcios in Vienna Around 1800 541
Dance in Pasticcios - Pasticcios in Dance 553
Ballet Performance as Motivation for Pasticcio Practices - Gluck' s and Berton's Cythère assiégée (1775) 575
The Use of Extracts of Mozart' s Operas in Polish Sacred Music 589
Pasticcio da chiesa: Transforming Opera Arias into an Oratorio The Case of Contrafacted Oratorios in Wrocaw and aga from the Mid-18th Century 609
Apostolo Zeno's Venceslao (Venice 1703) and its Pasticcio Version Vincislao re di Polonia (London 1717) A Case Study with Stops in Florence, Milan and Naples 623
The Musical and Physical Mobility of Material in Handel Sources 659
Pasticcios in Darmstadt? Christoph Graupner and the Use of Non-domestic Librettos in the Early 18th Century 669
Gluck's Contribution to the Pasticcios Arsace and La finta schiava 687
Digital Music Editions Beyond [Edited] Musical Text 705
The pasticci Tree: Manual and Computing Solutions 719
Ways of Replacement - Loss and Enrichment 733
Epilogue 755
List of Contributors 761
Index of Persons 771
Index of Places 791