A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Teufels Lustschloss, Des

TEUFELS LUSTSCHLOSS, DES (The Devil's Country-house). A comic opera in 3 acts, by Kotzebue, music by Schubert; composed between Jan. 11 and May 15, 1814, and re-written in the autumn. Act 2 was afterwards burnt. Acts 1 and 3 of the 2nd version are in the collection of Herr Nicolaus Dumba of Vienna. The overture was played by the London Musical Society, June 17, 1880, and at the Crystal Palace on Oct. 23 following. It contains a singular anticipation of the muted violin passage in the overture to 'Euryanthe.' The work will form no. 6 of Series XV, in the complete critical edition of Schubert, announced by Messrs. Breitkopfs.

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