# The Magic Flute Libretto: More Literary, Religious and Historical Sources and their InterpretationsThomson, Ian, Vol. 1

By **Ian Thomson**

- ISBN-13: 9780779952762
- Publisher: The Edwin Mellen Press
- Pages: 480
- Published: 1 Jan 2014
- Language: en

## About this book

This libretto-based study exposes the existence of an overriding purpose rooted in late-eighteenth-century eschatological thought. It also offers a new perspective on the opera’s origins. Dr. Thomson examines the Alberti libretto of The Magic Flute (Die Zauberflöte) as a literary form and reveals unexamined literary, historical and religious sources, leading to a new, more coherent interpretation of the opera and to hypotheses about the identity of the libretto’s author and Mozart’s death.

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