Gottlieb Stephanie
Johann Gottlieb Stephanie the Younger (19 February 1741 – 23 January 1800) was an Austrian playwright, director and librettist, most famously to Mozart. • Illustration — Engraved portrait of Gottlieb Stephanie Stephanie was born in Breslau, Prussia. He was taken prisoner by the Austrian forces in the Battle of Landeshut (1760) in the Seven Years' War. After nine months of imprisonment in Villach, he joined the Imperial Army and went to Vienna after the war ended.
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Gottlieb Stephanie
The Younger.
Philipp Stein · Philipp Stein, Deutsche Schauspieler · Public domain
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- 1741
- Died
- 1800
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- librettist · writer · stage actor · composer · actor · playwright
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He was appointed to head the National Singspiel, a favourite project of Emperor Joseph II. Stephanie's adaptation of Christoph Friedrich Bretzner's Belmont und Constanze has been harshly criticized; E. Dent called it "the very worst that he ever set to music". Mozart wrote to his father, "you are quite right so far as Stephanie's work is concerned.. I am well aware that the verse is not of the best." In 1769 Stephanie adapted Shakespeare's Macbeth to suit popular taste in Vienna. It was performed in the 1770s.
Stephanie's original surname was Stephan. He and his older brother, Christian Gottlob Stephanie (1733 – 10 April 1798) changed it to Stephanie. Gottlieb Stephanie the Younger married Anna Maria Mika (1751, Stiahlau, Bohemia – 2 February 1802, Vienna), an actress who debuted on 27 April 1771 at the Burgtheater. The couple had a daughter, Wilhelmine Korn, also an actress. Gottlieb Stephanie died in Vienna, aged 58.
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Gottlieb Stephanie was a writer, librettist, actor and playwright, born on 19 February 1741 in Breslau and died on 23 January 1800 in Vienna. Both events are recorded by the Bibliothèque nationale de France and the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek.
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• Die Entführung aus dem Serail, 1782, Music: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart • Der Schauspieldirektor, 1786, Music: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart • Doktor und Apotheker, 1786, Music: Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf
Maria Anna Stephanie geborene Mika (* 1751 in Prag; † 2. Februar 1802 in Wien) war österreichische Theater-Schauspielerin und Ehefrau von Johann Gottlieb Stephanie
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1741
Gottlieb Stephanie was born in 1741.
1800
Gottlieb Stephanie died at Vienna.
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- 1.BLKÖ Stephanie, Gottlieb 38 222 225
- 2.Boerner, Steve. K. 384, Die Entführung aus dem Serail. The Mozart Project. 1998.
- 3.Williams, Simon. Shakespeare on the German Stage, Vol. 1 1586–1914. Cambridge, 1990.
- 4.BLKÖ Stephanie, Christian Gottlob 38 216 222
- 5.Rikola. Silhouetten aus dem Jahre 1781. 180. 1922. 1084868655.
- 6.BLKÖ Korn, Wilhelmine 12 463
- 7.Nbn-resolving.de. DFG-Viewer: Version 3.0.
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