Abstract
This essay deals with one of the main questions in a future Germanistic editorial theory of the opera libretto as a literary work: under which circumstances are texts contained in musical scores to be regarded parts of the genesis of the libretto and these text carriers to be seen as parts of its transmission? In this essay, it is argued that the answer to this question is dependent on the individual development process of the libretto and decided by three criteria: an author-oriented, an authorization-oriented and a stemmatic one. A preliminary classification of development processes of librettos, based upon these criteria, is sketched.
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