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A pasticcio opera is created from pre-existing music, texts or both. This way of creating operas began soon after 1600 and still continues today, yet twentieth-century musicologists, steeped in neoromantic assumptions, felt that purely original works had to be better than collaborative ones, or composites, and must have been more valued and widespread. They presented pasticcio as a marginal genre within opera which came to an end in the early ...