Editing Die Entführung aus dem Serail (section)

==Instrumentation==
[[File:Die Entführung aus dem Serail ouverture.jpg|thumb|upright=1.2|Autograph manuscript of the beginning of the overture]]
The singers perform with a [[Classical period (music)|Classical-era]] orchestra: pairs of [[western concert flute|flute]]s, [[oboe]]s, [[clarinet]]s, [[bassoon]]s, [[Natural horn|horn]]s, [[Natural trumpet|trumpets]], a set of two [[timpani]], and [[string section|strings]]. They are augmented with the instruments needed for [[Turkish music (style)|"Turkish" music]]: tamburo grande (tamburo turco), [[cymbal]]s, [[triangle (musical instrument)|triangles]], and [[piccolo]]. The aria "{{Lang|de|Traurigkeit ward mir zum Lose|italic=no}}" is augmented by two [[basset horn]]s.

The orchestra for the premiere included a number of eminent musicians of the day: first cellist [[Joseph Franz Weigl]], first oboist [[Josef Triebensee]], second oboist {{ill|Johann Went|de|,Johann Nepomuk Wendt}} second horn [[Joseph Leutgeb]], and the clarinettist brothers [[Anton Stadler|Anton]] and [[Johann Stadler]]. In the first violin section was [[Josepha Weber|Franz de Paula Hofer]], who later became Mozart's brother-in-law.{{sfn|Edge|1992|loc=72–73}} The four musicians who played the "Turkish" instruments remain anonymous, though it is known that they were recruited for this purpose by one Franz Tyron, [[Kapellmeister]] of the Austrian Second Field Artillery Regiment.{{sfn|Edge|1992|loc=75}}