On Feb 11, 2005, at 10:51 AM, Andrew Stiller wrote:
There is not the slightest evidence for this. In fact, when I took the standard music history survey as an undergraduate, the professor specifically warned us against this as a 19th-century misinterpretation that no longer carried any credibility. Schikaneder testifies that he and Mozart planned the libretto *together* with great care ("den Text mit dem seligen Mozart fleissig durchdacht").
Thanks very much for this information. I am of course familiar with the standard 19th-century interpretation; I didn't realize that it had been proven fallacious.
Does that mean the whole theory of the political allegory with Joseph II, Ignaz von Born, etc., is also phony? or is that part still good?
Do you know anything about the theory that the libretto wasn't written by Schikaneder at all, but rather by Gieseke?
thanks mdl
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