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	Theater an der Wien - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The theatre was the brainchild of the Vienna theatrical impresario Emanuel Schikaneder, who is otherwise best known to history as Mozart's librettist and collaborator on the opera Die Zauberflöte (1791).
		Schikaneder had been granted an imperial licence in 1786 to build a new theatre, but it was only in 1798 that he felt ready to act on this authorization.
		The theater opened on June 13 of that year with a prologue written by Schikaneder, followed by a performance of the opera "Alexander" by Alexander Teyber.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Theater_an_der_Wien (678 words)

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		Schikaneder was an actor of great breadth and talent who made his reputation by playing the classic roles of Shakespeare and Schiller in a touring company originating in his native Regensburg and that spent some time in Salzburg, Mozart’s home town, in 1780.
		Schikaneder was a canny administrator who was capable of coming up with clever schemes to keep his company afloat in desperate times.
		It should be noted that Schikaneder was not allowed to become a Freemason in his native Regensburg because his character did not fit their moral code of ethics (he was evidently something of a womanizer).
	www.operapaedia.org /Opera.aspx?article=1186&id=4026 (553 words)

	Die Zauberflöte - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Die Zauberflöte (en: The Magic Flute) is an opera in two acts composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to a German libretto by Emanuel Schikaneder.
		Schikaneder himself played Papageno, while the Queen was played by Mozart's sister-in-law Josepha Hofer.
		Both Schikaneder and Mozart were Masons and lodge brothers.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Die_Zauberfl%C3%B6te (1795 words)

	Die Zauberflöte - January 9th, 11th, and 17th, 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Schikaneder, by all accounts an overbearing and intolerable egotist, made sure that what he considered to be his immense talents were served in the commission of Mozart’s opera.
		Mozart complied with all of Schikaneder’s wishes, perhaps because the work was being sponsored by the Freemasons (lifelong supporters of Mozart and his work), or perhaps because the story fascinated him (it was steeped in the mystique of the Masonic tradition), or maybe his deep feeling of impending doom spurred him on.
		Schikaneder had based his libretto on the well known German fairy tale collection by Wieland called "Dschinnistan" (A Fabled Land), and on one story in particular, "Lulu and the Magic Flute." He then proceeded to turn things around in the story to fit better into the framework of Masonic tradition.
	www.cityoperacompany.com /magicflute.asp (1068 words)

	Washington's Classical Station, WGMS
		Schikaneder recently became manager of the Freihaus Theater on the city's outskirts, so called because it is a free, as opposed to a court, theater, and caters to the lower brow tastes of Viennese suburbanites.
		Schikaneder, whose chief concerns are openly and doggedly commercial, intends to satisfy all his customers' tastes.
		Mozart and Schikaneder delighted in dropping Masonic references, notably in the overture where the rhythmic sign of the Fellow Craft is played in the winds; in the symbolic figure three which dominates the opera; in an apparent attempt to reform the secretive all-male Order by asking that women be allowed initiation.
	www.wgms.com /index.php?nid=56&sid=99210 (1067 words)

	The Mozart Project: Papageno: Emanuel Schikaneder (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The fact is, Schikaneder was very well known in Vienna, especially among the middle class audiences that he endeavored to attract to his theaters.
		Schikaneder's rise from itinerant entertainer to Vienna's most influential impresario makes quite a story, and Kurt Honolka tells it in a straightforward manner.
		And he gives us some insight into how Mozart and Schikaneder (whose talents were very unevenly matched) were able to work together on their opera.
	www.mozartproject.org /books/honolka.html (367 words)

	OperaWorld.com's Opera Insights: The Magic Flute (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Schikaneder's plan was to write the libretto and play the role of the lighthearted panpipe-playing Papageno, while various family members would fill several of the other roles.
		Meanwhile, Schikaneder built a new theater with the money raised by ticket sales, and went on to announce the 100th and 200th performances of the opera one and two years later (in fact, exaggerations of the 83rd and 135th performances).
		Both Mozart and Schikaneder were active Freemasons, and the links between Masonic rituals and the trials the characters must endure in the plot are many.
	www.operaworld.com /special/magic.shtml (1226 words)

	Mozart’s Vienna IV: The Freihaus Theater, Pt. 2 [Archive] - MozartForum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Schikaneder reckoned that offering a sequel might be just the ticket to regaining profits, and so he wrote a libretto entitled Der fall ist Noch weit seltener (The Case is even Stranger), with music by Benedikt Schack.
		Schikaneder in fact did, over the course of his tenure as owner/director of the Freihaus Theater, engage some then well-known composers to provide the music to his librettos.
		In a small "garden-house" belonging to Schikaneder, amongst the gardens in the second big court of the Freihaus, Mozart is recalled to have occasionally sat and worked while the libretto was being produced in bits and pieces.
	www.mozartforum.com /VB_forum/archive/index.php/t-827.html (1837 words)

	Emanuel Schikaneder -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia
		He was born Johann Joseph Schikaneder on Sept. 1, 1751, in Straubing, Bavaria.
		Two years later he was offered a contract for an opera on a classical subject with a libretto by Emanuel Schikaneder, who had achieved fame and wealth as the librettist of...
		The greatest opera composer of the last half of the 18th century, and one whom Gluck greatly influenced, was Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
	www.britannica.com /ebi/article-9335863 (667 words)

	The Light and the Dark: other publications - The Enigma of the Magic Flute
		I start from the premiss that it was Schikaneder who wrote the whole play, as long as the opposite does not become apparent.
		Schikaneder and Mozart can impossibly have had the intention to give new life to an ancient Greek mystery cult.
		Schikaneder was a very simple man, who has hardly ever seen a schoolroom and who erred about as a musician already at a very early age.
	home.wanadoo.nl /piet.fontaine/oth-pub/magicflute/magicflute.htm (3466 words)

	BBC News \| ENTERTAINMENT \| Long-lost Mozart comes to London
		Mozart was persuaded to compose some of the music for The Philosopher's Stone by his friend, the Viennese actor and impresario Emanuel Schikaneder, in the summer of 1790.
		Schikaneder was in a hurry to produce a musical comedy in time for the autumn season at Vienna's Theater auf der Wieden, and so drew on the services of three other composer friends in addition to Mozart.
		The copyist at the Theater auf der Wieden in the early 1790s was Kaspar Weiss, a Slovene-born actor and singer who was on intimate terms with Mozart, Schikaneder and their circle.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/entertainment/759359.stm (558 words)

	Mozart's Magic Flute (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Schikaneder's libretto has varied sources, and the interpolation of the sources themselves could certainly contribute to the plot's initial inaccessibility.
		Schikaneder's wayward career and lack of any long-standing membership in any Masonic lodge may have fueled the suspect tales of false-authorship.
		Schikaneder's letter is revealing, and shows his need for acceptance to a formal organization.
	freemasonry.bcy.ca /biography/mozart_a/mozart's_magic_flute.html (3377 words)

	PlaybillArts: Features: Creating Magic
		His creativity was in flood and it seems as though Emanuel Schikaneder, his longtime friend, admirer, and, on this project, librettist, was determined to tap into it.
		It was Schikaneder who seems to have had the idea of combining comedy, rescue drama, mysticism, and ceremonial pomp into a "German Opera," which was how Mozart listed The Magic Flute in his catalog; the program called it a "Grosse Oper"--a grand opera.
		Schikaneder seems to have come up with Papageno partly from the comic squire in Oberon, and partly from the commedia dell'arte characters he played--in classical commedia the men often wore bird-masks.
	www.playbillarts.com /features/article/172.html (1305 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Emanuel Schikaneder (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Emanuel Schikaneder (September 9, 1751, Straubing - September 21, 1812, Vienna), born Johann Joseph Schikaneder, was mostly famous for his collaboration as a librettist with Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, on popular operas such as "The Magic Flute".
		Schikaneder led the Kärntnertortheater in Vienna from 1785, while still working with the Salzburg group as time permitted.
		His plan to build a theatre in Vienna was vetoed by Emperor Joseph II, which prompted him to temporarily leave for Regensberg.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Emanuel_Schikaneder (276 words)

	The Magic Flute (Mozart) - Synopsis
		Emanuel Johann Schikaneder, who wrote it with the aid of a chorister named Gieseke, was a friend of Mozart and a member of the same Masonic Lodge.
		While Schikaneder was busy on his libretto, a fairy story by Perinet, music by Wenzel Müller, and treating of the same subject, was given at another Viennese theatre.
		As a practical man Schikaneder saw his chance to exploit the interdicted rites on the stage.
	www.music-with-ease.com /magic-flute-synopsis.html (2140 words)

	PRAGUE Heart of Europe
		Jakub Schikaneder is one of the most remarkable figures in Czech art at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century, although his work was often ignored and underestimated in the past.
		In Schikaneder's work, dealing with the position of women in the markedly male-oriented society at the end of the 19th century became the bearer of a more general appeal drawing attention to the general crisis in bourgeois society.
		In the period that followed there were fundamental changes in Schikaneder's artistic diction and the content element of his work and its further development became fundamental for the concepts behind Schikaneder's work.
	www.heartofeurope.cz /priloha_1.html (726 words)

	The Simon Callow Fanpage - weblog@myblog.de (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		In fact Schikaneder is allways souroundet by three young girls, exept the Scenes of the "Magic Flute".
		The theater was designed as a faithful reproduction of the type employed and built by Mozart’s friend, the dramatist, director, actor, singer, librettist and composer Emanuel Schikaneder (1751-1812) portrayed in the film by Simon Callow.
		Schikaneder’s wooden frame “Volkstheater” (People’s Theatre) presented the more popular diversions, musicals and operas of his day.
	www.myblog.de /callow/page/64423 (359 words)

	The Magic Flute, Mozart (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Schikaneder was a showman being a singer, playwright, composer, producer, and manager.
		Mozart met Schikaneder in Salzburg in 1773 when Schikaneder was taking the lead roles in a touring group for which Mozart had written some incidental music.
		Even with the connections Mozart had to the Freemasonry and all the parallels to it we must admit that Mozart nor Schikaneder did not write anything upon which a definitive analysis could be based and we must be satisfied with a little speculation.
	www.ptloma.edu /music/MUH/genres/opera/magic.htm (1183 words)

	Mr Mozart's Opus
		Karl Ludwig Gieseke, a playwright and librettist, is the cause of the debate.
		Born September 1, 1751, Schikaneder was a known actor, singer, composer, theater manager, director and author of over a hundred plays and librettos (145-6).
		Schikaneder is reported to have pleaded with Mozart to help him produce another such opera when he (Schikaneder) was in financial trouble, thereby beginning the writing and composing of music for The Magic Flute.
	www.georgeaugustkoch.com /Writings/MozartPaper.htm (2982 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Theater an der Wien (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The theater was the brainchild of the Vienna theatrical impresario Emanuel Schikaneder, who is otherwise best known to history as Mozart's librettist and collaborator on the opera The Magic Flute (1791).
		Schikaneder had been granted an imperial licence in 1786 to build a new theater, but it was only in 1798 that he felt ready to act on this authorization.
		Today the river is covered over in this location, and the spot houses the Naschmarkt, an open-air market.The Theater an der Wien was designed in Empire style.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Theater_an_der_Wien (622 words)

	WAM1780.12 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The actors played their parts most admirably; but the play itself, which lasted fully four hours, was so wretched that if it had been written on purpose to drive people out of the theatre and to incite them to hiss it off the stage, it could not have been more successful.
		We ourselves did not want to be present if Schikaneder was going to be insulted; so we left during the last scene.
		Herr Schikaneder is delighted with your aria, and the singer a who is learning it at our house would have thoroughly mastered it, but unfortunately the time is too short, as the play in which she has to sing it is being performed tomorrow.
	chnm.gmu.edu /history/faculty/kelly/1301/WAM1780.12.htm (604 words)

	Washington National Opera - Generation O (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The story, written by Emanuel Schikaneder, was taken from three diverse sources: fairy tales, one in particular entitled "Lulu, or The Magic Flute" by Christoph Martin Wieland (1786); Masonic practices; and the novel Sethos by the Abbé Jean Perrasson, published in Paris in 1731, and set in ancient Egypt, the supposed origin of Masonic rituals.
		As opposed to the other famous Mozart operas that had been premiered in an atmosphere of royal or near-royal patronage, The Magic Flute was commissioned for a small popular theater in the suburbs of Vienna by its proprietor, Emanuel Schikaneder, an old friend from Salzburg.
		The idea of writing an opera based on this exotic story was proposed to Mozart by Schikaneder, who enjoyed a long career as an actor, impresario, and playwright.
	www.dc-opera.org /experience/generationo/geno/gen-o_libretto.htm (156 words)

	PlaybillArts: Features: A Classic Tale
		Instead Mozart teamed up with his old friend Emanuel Schikaneder, the actor and manager of a theatrical troupe that was presenting plays and operas in a distinctly low-brow theater on the edges of Vienna.
		Schikaneder had written the libretto for a singspiel—literally a “song play,” an opera with spoken dialogue—called The Magic Flute in which he would play the comic lead, and he invited Mozart to supply the music.
		Schikaneder was a skilled Shakespearean actor as well.
	www.playbillarts.com /features/article/173.html (1251 words)

	INKPOT#84 CLASSICAL MUSIC REVIEWS: MOZART, et al. The Philsopher's Stone. Various/Boston Baroque/Pearlman (Telarc) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		A Fairy Tale Opera from 1790 to a libretto by Emmanuel Schikaneder.
		On it, Mozart's name was found to grace the score of a major 'Cat' duet in the opera and over substantial sections of the second act finale.
		The argument is that though his involvement may on the one hand be limited as such, he may have been involved in the re-writing or correction, suggestion and/or orchestration of other parts of this opera by his theatre friends Henneberg, Schack, Gerl and Schikaneder.
	inkpot.com /classical/mozphilostone.html (1477 words)

	:: The Youngstown Symphony :: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		For Zauberflte he not only conducted the premiere but he enjoyed returning occasionally, in one case sneaking backstage to play the glockenspiel which Schikaneder as Papageno was supposedly playing on stage.
		On that occasion, Mozart impishly tried to rattle his friend by playing the bells when Papageno was not and vice versa — only then did the audience realize that Schikaneder himself was not playing the bells.
		It is easy to poke fun at Schikaneder's libretto, for all its obvious internal contradictions, irrationalities, and lack of logical progression.
	www.youngstownsymphony.com /oct02.html (2397 words)

	Performance Notes \| The Magic Flute \| Abbeville Press
		The Magic Flute (Die Zauberflöte) is the product of a unique collaboration between the actor-manager Emanuel Schikaneder, who commissioned it in 1791, and the composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart—who at age thirty-five was at the height of his creative genius and in the last year of his tragically short life.
		It is a German Singspiel (sung/spoken) opera in two acts, with a libretto attributed to Schikaneder, though it was probably written mostly by C. Giesecke, an actor in Schikaneder’s company.
		Schikaneder’s production was performed over one hundred times and toured in every country in Europe except Italy.
	www.abbeville.com /magicflute/performance.html (452 words)

	Alibris: Emanuel Schikaneder
		by Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, and Schikaneder, Emanuel, and Giesecke, Carl Ludwig, and Thompson, George, and Royal Opera House
		Die Zauberflöte; [libretto by Emanuel Schikaneder to the opera by] W.A. Mozart; [and], Die Entführung aus dem Serail; [libretto by Gottlieb Stephanie to the opera by] W.A. Mozart
		by Schikaneder, Emanuel, and Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, and Salter, Lionel
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Schikaneder,Emanuel (209 words)

	The Magic Flute: The Guided Tour at Getreidegasse 9-Wilkommen!
		Schikaneder's proposal of The Magic Flute came at a time when Mozart was quite prolific in several genres: dance music, the piano concerto in Bb major (K.595, his last) a string quartet, the Eb quintet, works for mechanical clock as well as several songs to name a few.
		Although it is accepted that Schikaneder wrote the libretto for Mozart's opera, there has been some dispute about The Magic Flute's authorship.
		The short letter also highlights his ability to stress (or at least react to) the dramatic element and self-promotion…certainly two character traits found in his Papageno.
	www.geocities.com /Vienna/Strasse/1025/magic_flute_main.html (1266 words)

	The Independent (London, England): Classical: It's out of this world; Singing birds, cats and comets... The ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The Philosopher's Stone, Schikaneder's comic opera, is being given a sci-fi make-over, writes Roderic Dunnett.(Features)
		Yet another madcap opera by Emanuel Schikaneder, co-composed by members of the original Magic Flute cast, with a storm, a shipwreck, dwarves, magic birds and astral beings, and Mozart's name writ large upon it?
		The Philosopher's Stone (Der Stein der Weisen, or Die Zauberinsel, 1790) is a Singspiel with spoken comic dialogue, jointly attributed to Mozart, Schikaneder, Franz Gerl, Benedikt Schack and Johann Henneberg.
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:76793022&refid=holomed_1 (245 words)

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