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Already in Mozart's lifetime there were legends about the composition of the overture. The score was written down the very night before the premiere, then the voices were copied and placed - still somewhat damp - before the musicians. That is why Mozart could state after the first night that somehow or other a few notes "had fallen under the desks". As to the music it is obvious that Mozart uses characteristic keys. The listener connects certain keys with certain actions on the stage, he understands the atmosphere of a situation. The D minor key expresses fate and revenge, e.g. in the slow introduction of the overture as well as in the appearance of the Commendatore during Don Giovanni's featst at the end of the opera. The triumph of good over evil is announced in D major (overture, presto of the finale: "That is how evil-doers die"). Don Giovanni is assigned D major and B-flat major (champagne aria). A major and D major are the keys of the lower classes (Leporello's first appearance, register aria), but also for Don Giovanni when he sings a serenade to Elvira's maid (Come to the window, pretty one). Don Giovanni is the drama of a libertine whose end is demonstrated to the audience. It is Mozart's genius to have combined tragic and comic elements, seduction and passion into a unity. He depicts individual scenes quite accurately, without propagating naturalistic "sound pictures". 
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