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    Maria von Weber with a libretto by Friedrich Kind, based on a story by Johann August Apel and Friedrich Laun from their 1810 collection Gespensterbuch...
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    Johann Christian Gerning (1745–1802) was a German banker, art collector, and entomologist. Gerning lived in Frankfurt. His insect collection was given...
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    soprano Emilie Willmann Heilmann bass Johann Gottfried Karl Wauer [de] Kühleborn bass Fisherman bass Johann Georg Gern Fisherman's wife mezzo-soprano Wilhelmine...
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    Café Zimmermann (category Georg Philipp Telemann)
    hosted the Collegium Musicum founded by Georg Philipp Telemann as a law student in 1702. It was later directed by Johann Sebastian Bach between 1729 and 1741...
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    Die Fledermaus (category Operas by Johann Strauss II)
    winkt"/"A supper is before us") and the Prince welcomes his guests ("Ich lade gern mir Gäste ein"/"I love to invite my friends"). Eisenstein is introduced to...
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    likewise and they contacted the banker and collector Johann Christian Gerning in Frankfurt. Gerning wrote to his son in the Netherlands, who bought insect...
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    Würzburg), daughter of Günther Krönlein (a relative of Rhenish missionary Johann Georg Krönlein) and wife Anneliese Benz, in a civil ceremony. The couple renewed...
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    Nissen's biography bowdlerized the text, substituting "Ich lass das Mädel gern, das mich nicht will" (I'd gladly give up the girl who doesn't want me)....
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    Johann Sebastian Bach composed the church cantata Wer sich selbst erhöhet, der soll erniedriget werden (Whoever exalts himself, will be abased / KJV: For...
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  • Elfenlied (category Poetry by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
    word: 'Go forth unto mine vineyard' — just around eleven". Cited in Franz Georg Brustgi, Eningen unter Achalm: Bildnis e. altwürttemberg. Handelsortes (1976)...
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