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The Philosopher's Stone or The Magic Island is an opera (more precisely, a Singspiel ). The libretto by Emanuel Schikaneder

Production and reception history

The music for this work Schikaneder should come in one after the Second World War initially inaccessible Hamburger copy of the score by Johann Baptist Henneberg after entries and includes insert numbers by Franz Xaver Gerl, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Benedikt Schack and Schikaneder. The premiere took place on 11 September 1790 at Wiedner theater instead, and the work was performed in a number of theaters in the German-speaking countries also.

A summary of the action can be found here

In 1996, the opera by the American musicologist David J. book was rediscovered in the music collection of the State and University Library Hamburg and recorded by Boston Baroque under Martin Pearlman for the first time in November 1998.

This discovery was a sensation among other reasons because Opera has several important parallels to a year later premiered Magic Flute by Mozart. Even the Sorcerer's Stone contains motifs from Christoph Martin Wieland's fairy tale collection Dschinnistan, and his five composers were all involved in the Magic Flute, as a composer, librettist, conductor of the premiere or singer in the premiere. In addition, there are many very striking musical similarities between those parts of the Philosopher's Stone that were not composed by Mozart and the Magic Flute. These parallels are explained in detail by Martin Pearlman in the "Discussion Disc" his admission on the basis of research by David book.

Personnel parallels between the philosopher's stone and the Magic Flute

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: co-composer of the Philosopher's Stone, composer of The Magic Flute
  • Johann Baptist Henneberg: co-composer and conductor of the Philosopher's Stone, conductor of The Magic Flute
  • Benedikt Schack: co-composer of the Philosopher's Stone, Astro Monte in Philosopher's Stone, Tamino in The Magic Flute
  • Franz Xaver Gerl: co-composer of the Philosopher's Stone, Eutifronte in Philosopher's Stone, Sarastro in The Magic Flute
  • Emanuel Schikaneder: librettist and co-composer of the Philosopher's Stone, Lubano in Philosopher's Stone, librettist of The Magic Flute, Papageno in The Magic Flute
  • Urban Schikaneder (brother of Emanuel Schikaneder ): Sadik in Philosopher's Stone, the first priest in The Magic Flute
  • Johann Michael Kistler: Nadir in Philosopher's Stone, Second Priest in The Magic Flute
  • Anna Gottlieb: Nadine in Philosopher's Stone, Pamina in The Magic Flute
  • Barbara Gerl ( wife of Franz Xaver Gerl ): Lubanara in Philosopher's Stone, Papagena in The Magic Flute

Editions

  • Schikaneder's heroic- comic opera, The Philosopher's Stone - a model for Mozart's Magic Flute. Critical edition of the text book, ed. [ ... ] Of D. Book and Manuela Jahrmärker (Hain wood Musicology, vol 5), Göttingen 2002. 119 S.
  • David Book ( ed.): The Philosopher's Stone. ( Score), AR Editions (2007), Inc. ISBN 0895796163rd
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