Gottlieb Stephanie

Johann Gottlieb Stephanie the Younger (19 February 1741 in Breslau – 23 January 1800 in Vienna) was an Austrian playwright, director and librettist, most famously to Mozart. He came to Vienna during the Seven Years' War as a Prussian prisoner of war. He was appointed to head the National Singspiel, a favourite project of Emperor Joseph II. Stephanie's adaptation of Christoph Friedrich Bretzner's Entführung has been harshly criticized; E.J. Dent c... more

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  • Feb 19, 1741

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  • Jan 23, 1800 (age 58 years)
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