Masonism in Mozart’s The Magic Flute

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On the 30th of September 1791,the opera The Magic Flute by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart made its debut at Freihaus-Theater auf der Wieden in Vienna. The piecewas finished three months before the composer died of suspected rheumatoid fever at the young age of 35. Mozart scholar Maynard Solomon wrote that, “Although there were no reviews of the first performances, it was immediately evident that Mozart and [the librettist] Schikaneder had achieved a great success, the opera drawing immen...