Reinhard Keiser
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Reinhard Keiser was a German opera composer based in Hamburg. He wrote over a hundred operas. Johann Adolf Scheibe considered him an equal to Johann Kuhnau, George Frideric Handel and Georg Philipp Te
Title page of an opera libretto
Manuscript of the beginning of an opera aria
Oper am Gänsemarkt
Oper am Gänsemarkt
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The Oper am Gänsemarkt was a theatre in Hamburg, Germany, built in 1678 after plans of Girolamo Sartorio at the Gänsemarkt square. It was the first public opera house to be established in Germany: not
Reinhard Keiser
…oratorios, background music – all for the city's use. About 1697 he settled permanently in Hamburg, and became the chief composer at the highly renowned Oper am Gänsemarkt (now rebuilt as the Hamburg State Opera) in Hamburg from 1697 to 1717; however he was actually first the director in 1702, and was not at various times…
Early 18th-century engraving of the opera house