W. A. Mozart once praised the sonatas for piano and harpsichord by Josef Myslivecek (1737–1781) in a letter to his father; he not only played them himself, but also recommended that his sister learn them by heart. The collection of six already ...

As far as numbers go, the first place in the works of Josef Myslivecek (1737–1781) is held by operas – he wrote twenty-eight of them, and together with his arias, oratorios and cantatas, they comprise one of the most extensive vocal corpuses ...