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Schikaneder (Schikaneder) Emanuel (real name and family name - Johann Joseph Schikkeneder, Schickeneder) (1 IX 1751, Straubing, near Regensburg - 21 IX 1812, Vienna) - German actor, singer, director, librettist and theater. figure. Since 1773, an actor of vagrant troupes, performed in Stuttgart, Nuremberg, Augsburg, Regensburg. From 1778 he was the director of an itinerant troupe, in 1780-81 - in Salzburg (where in 1780 he met V.A. Mozart). In 1781-84 in Presburg (now Bratislava) formed a new number of actors. In 1784-86 he performed in Vienna (Kernntnertortheater), then in the cities of South. Germany.In 1789 he headed the "Freyhausteater" in Wieden (a suburb of Vienna), and put in it a number of singspiers and him. operas. Fast. W. played an important role in the history of it. musestheater, preparing the formation of nat. fairy-tale opera. In 1791 he wrote the libretto of the opera The Magic Flute by Mozart, in the first post. (1791, "Freyhausteatr") played the role of Papageno. The author of the text of the small Masonic cantata “Loudly declare our joy” (Eine kleine Freimaurer-Cantate “Laut verkunde unsere Freude”, 1791) by Mozart. Like Mozart, S. was a member of Viennese Masonic Lodge. In 1801-06 - one of the hands. Theater An der Vin (Vienna); here in 1805 the premiere of Beethoven's opera Fidelio took place. In 1807-09 hands. Theater in Brunne (Brno). Author approx. 50 opera librettos, including the opera by F. K. Zyusmayr “Mirror of Arcadia” (“Der Spiegel von Arkadien”).