Ignaz Alberti
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Ignaz Alberti was an Austrian illustrator, engraver and book printer. He employed some 20 engravers in 1787 who applied their skills to cartography and botanical books. After his death his widow manag
Ignaz Alberti
Primula elatior Icones Plantarum Medico-Oeconomico-Technologicarum
Frontispiece of the first edition of Die Zauberflöte (1791)
Old Testament published in Vienna (1793)
Emanuel Schikaneder
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Emanuel Schikaneder was a German impresario, dramatist, actor, singer, and composer. He wrote the libretto of Mozart's opera Die Zauberflöte and was the builder of the Theater an der Wien. Peter Brans
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…Ovid's Verwandlungen in Kupfern und mit den nöthigen erlaäuterungen versehen heraus gegeben von einer Gesellschaft 1791–93. Emanuel Schikaneder's Die Zauberflöte 1791. Liedersammlung für Kinder und Kinderfreunde am Clavier 1791…
Schikaneder playing the role of Papageno in Mozart's Die Zauberflöte. Engraving by Ignaz Alberti
Auditorium of Regensburg Theatre
Schikaneder circa 1784
Papageno Gate – the former main entrance of the Theater an der Wien (1801). Schikaneder as Papageno with his siblings in Das Labyrinth.