Emanuel (Johann Joseph) Schikaneder

(1751-1812)

"Blind Guitarist" (1778), oil on canvas, 260 x 311 cm, of the painter Francisco Goya, contemporary of Schikaneder (Museo del Prado, Madrid)

The musician Emanuel (Johann Joseph) (Baptist) Schikaneder, author of instrumental and vocal music, was born in Straubing on the first September 1751, the same year of the composers Birnbach, Bortnyansky, Kauer, Laserna, Lasser, Lemoyne, Radziwell, Salari, Schröter, Stegmann. He died in Vienna on the 21 September 1812

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Music examples MIDI ed Mp3 of late Baroque

Emanuel (Johann Joseph) Schikaneder

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"Die Lyranten" was performed in Innsbruck in 1775/6

"Das Urianische Schloss" was performed in Salisburgo in 1786

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