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    Maria Josepha Weber (later Josepha Hofer, Josepha Meier; 1758 – 29 December 1819) was a German soprano of the classical era. She was a sister-in-law of...
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    reference to her sister Josepha Hofer, the coloratura soprano who premiered the role of the Queen of the Night: Quiet, quiet! Hofer is just taking her top...
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    the role of the Queen of the Night was sung by Mozart's sister-in-law Josepha Hofer. On the reception of the opera, Mozart scholar Maynard Solomon writes:...
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    bass Franz Xaver Gerl. From his wife's company he retained soprano Josepha Hofer, actor Johann Joseph Nouseul, and Karl Ludwig Giesecke as librettist...
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    the aria onstage was Mozart's sister-in-law Josepha Hofer, who at the time was 32. By all accounts, Hofer had an extraordinary upper register and an agile...
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    a dramatic and powerful voice. Originally, the part was written for Josepha Hofer, the composer's sister-in-law, whose voice possessed both of these qualities...
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    family friend, sang the soprano line, as he had always previously done, Hofer, Mozart's brother-in-law, took the tenor, Gerl, later a bass singer at the...
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    the Elves"). This production featured in the leading role the soprano Josepha Hofer, who was Mozart's sister-in-law and later premiered the role of the...
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    the role of the Queen of the Night was sung by Mozart's sister-in-law Josepha Hofer-Mayer. Schikaneder was the librettist of Mozart's opera and he was considered...
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    (Wiesental). It is the northern terminus of the Wiese Valley Railway. Josepha Hofer (1761-1819), soprano Rudolf Vogel (1882-1972), material researcher and...
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  • proprietor) Emanuel Schikaneder playing Papageno and Mozart's sister-in-law Josepha Hofer playing the Queen of the Night. December 5 (01:00) – Death of Wolfgang...
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    aria "Schon lacht der holde Frühling" (K. 580) to his sister-in-law Josepha Hofer as a substitute for Rosina's original act 3 aria ("Già riede primavera")...
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    Vincenzo Righini was performed in the Burgtheater. Mozart's sister-in-law Josepha Hofer, who later sang as the first Queen of the Night in The Magic Flute,...
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    are the tenor Benedikt Schack (later the first Tamino) and soprano Josepha Hofer (the first Queen of the Night); Nouseul, playing the role of Graf von...
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    married Cäcilia Cordula Stamm (1727–1793) Josepha Weber (1758–1819), soprano, married (i) Franz de Paula Hofer (1755–96) (ii) Sebastian Mayer (1773–1835)...
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  • Grete Das ewige Spiel (1951) Captive Soul (1952) House of Life (1952) - Josepha Spratt The Great Temptation (1952) - Frau Riebold Zwerg Nase (1953) - Hexe...
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    January 1764 Karl Johann Baptist married firstly with Maria Christina Josepha (25 April 1738 – 4 March 1788), a daughter of Jan Josef, Count of Thun...
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  • Schikaneder. On 23 December 1797, he became the second husband of Josepha (Weber) Hofer, the sister of Constanze Mozart. Constanze was the widow of Mozart...
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  • French colonizer and Governor of Louisiana (b. 1680) March 13 – Maria Josepha of Saxony, Dauphine of France (b. 1731) (tuberculosis) April 5 – Princess...
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    Landwehr, which played a vital role in the Tyrolean Rebellion led by Andreas Hofer. At the commencement of the War of the Fifth Coalition in 1809 he became...
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    Nikolsburg on 2 September 1725 Karl Maximilian married Countess Maria Anna Josepha of Khevenhüller-Aichelberg-Hohenosterwitz (25 March 1705 – 4 October 1764)...
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  • (1845–1930) Lera Auerbach (born 1973) Marianna Auenbrugger (1759–1782) Josepha Barbara Auernhammer (1758–1820) May Aufderheide (1888–1972) Benedikt Anton...
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    Gothic novel January 23 – Prince Joseph of Austria marries Princess Maria Josepha of Bavaria in Vienna. January 29 – One week before his death, Mir Jafar...
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  • Rooster Leo Yerxa Last Leaf First Snowflake to Fall 1994 Murray Kimber Josepha: A Prairie Boy's Story Marie Lafrance La Diablesse and the Baby Michèle...
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  • 3–6, 6–3, 6–0 Tayisiya Morderger Katie Boulter Chloé Paquet Katy Dunne Josepha Adam Harmony Tan Francesca Stephenson Aliona Bolsova Zadoinov Carla Touly...
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  • Tan Ioana Loredana Roșca Margot Yerolymos Caroline Roméo Lena Pacholski Josepha Adam Alix Collombon Audrey Albié Kinnie Laisné 6–3, 2–6, [10–8] Camilla...
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