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    Friederike Sophie Seyler (1738, Dresden – 22 November 1789, Schleswig; née Sparmann, formerly married Hensel) was a German actress, playwright and librettist...
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    life. In 1772, Abel Seyler married his long-time mistress Friederike Sophie Seyler (1737/1738–1789), who was alongside Friederike Caroline Neuber Germany's...
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    (German: Hüon und Amande), is a romantic Singspiel in five acts by Friederike Sophie Seyler, inspired by the poem Oberon by Christoph Martin Wieland, which...
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  • theatre director Friederike Sophie Seyler (1737/38–1789), German actress and librettist Ludwig Edwin Seyler (1758–1836), German banker Seyler theatrical company...
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    from their uncle on his death in 1793. In 1772 Abel Seyler married the actress Friederike Sophie Seyler (formerly married Hensel). They had no children....
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  • of the troupe. In 1762, Johann Michael Böck joined the troupe. Friederike Sophie Seyler also joined around this time, and both remained members until the...
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    company was saved by Seyler's brother-in-law, Johann Gerhard Reinhard Andreae. Abel Seyler (director/owner/actor) Friederike Sophie Seyler, formerly Hensel...
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    Christoph Willibald Gluck, Heinrich von Kleist, Frederick the Great, Friederike Sophie Seyler, Johann Gottfried Herder, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Moses Mendelssohn...
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    daughter of famed Swiss-born theatre director Abel Seyler and stepdaughter of actress Friederike Sophie Seyler, and grew up with her uncle J.G.R. Andreae in...
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  • the fairies. Oberon may also refer to: Oberon (Seyler), a 1789 Singspiel by Friederike Sophie Seyler Oberon (Weber), an 1826 opera by Carl Maria von...
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    Entführung oder die zärtliche Mutter by German actress and playwright Friederike Sophie Seyler. Rivero p.7 Turner p.91 Kelly, Linda. Richard Brinsley Sheridan...
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    1799), née Endemann, was a German actress. She was a student of Friederike Sophie Seyler and was one of the leading actresses of the Mannheim National Theatre...
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    Matthauskirche in Dresden. He was the grandfather of the famous actress Friederike Sophie Seyler. Fritz Löffler, Das Alte Dresden: Geschichte seiner Bauten, 16th...
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    ("The Abduction, or The Tender Mother") is a play in five acts by Friederike Sophie Seyler. It was originally published in 1770 under the title Die Familie...
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    The Magic Flute: Oberon, a romantic Singspiel in five acts by Friederike Sophie Seyler, premiered in a plagiarized version by Karl Ludwig Giesecke, later...
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    as well as the epic Oberon, which formed the basis for both Friederike Sophie Seyler's opera of the same name and Carl Maria von Weber's opera of the...
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  • Mendelssohn (also Fanny Hensel; 1805–1847), German pianist and composer Friederike Sophie Seyler (née Hensel; 1737/1738 – 1789), German actress, playwright and...
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    had no children of his own. Their father, Abel Seyler, remarried in 1772 to Friederike Sophie Seyler, Germany's leading actress of the second half of...
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  • Johann Gottlieb Hensel (category Seyler theatrical company)
    as the first husband of the far more prominent actress Friederike Sophie Hensel, later Seyler (née Sparmann), a prominent figure in the history of theatre...
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    Mozart Donna Elvira Don Giovanni Mozart 1794 Almanzaris Oberon Friederike Sophie Seyler Pamina, Königin der Nacht Die Zauberflöte Mozart 1797 Lodoïska...
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    music by Paul Wranitzky and a libretto that was a readaptation of Friederike Sophie Seyler's original libretto. This was followed by Der Stein der Weisen oder...
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    invited the Seyler Theatre Company led by Abel Seyler, pioneers of the Sturm und Drang movement, to her court in Weimar. The Seyler company was soon...
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    Friederike Sophie Seyler, in Mérope, by Voltaire...
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    Schiller's work The Robbers (1781). He was married to Sophie Seyler, the daughter of theatre director Abel Seyler. Heinrich Leopold Wagner was born in Strasbourg...
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    opera singer. In 1771, Koch went to Weimar with her husband as part of the Seyler Theatre Company, where she studied singing under Anton Schweitzer and later...
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    troupes of Johann Friedrich Schönemann (1704–1782), Abel Seyler (1730–1800) with the Seyler Theatre Company (founded 1769) and Emanuel Schikaneder (1751–1812)...
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  • her death Johann Ferdinad II von Tessin of Kilchberg remarried to Sophie Friederike Dorothea von Woellwarth. They had five children, and Kilchberg eventually...
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    Friedrich Maximilian Klinger's play Sturm und Drang is premiered by the Seyler Theatre Company in Leipzig, giving its name to the whole Sturm und Drang...
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