Benedikt Schack in performance with the Schikaneder troupe: the number "O Anton du bist mein" from the Singspiel Die Zween Anton. Schack is at center, his hands held by soprano Josepha Hofer and baritone/impresario Emanuel Schikaneder. Click on image for the identities of the other players and the original source.
Benedikt Emanuel Schack[1] (Czech: Benedikt Žák) (7 February 1758 – 10 December 1826) was a composer and tenor of the Classical era, a close friend of Mozart and the first performer of the role of Tamino in Mozart's opera The Magic Flute.
^Literature by and about Benedikt Schack in the German National Library catalogue
Benedikt Emanuel Schack (Czech: Benedikt Žák) (7 February 1758 – 10 December 1826) was a composer and tenor of the Classical era, a close friend of Mozart...
Schack, née Rantzau (1689–1760), a Danish noblewoman, landowner and builder. Barbara Schack (1873/4–1958), Sudeten German politician BenediktSchack (1758–1826)...
a close friend of one of the singer-composers of the troupe, tenor BenediktSchack (the first Tamino), and had contributed to the compositions of the...
Schikaneder brought two singers with him from his old troupe, tenor BenediktSchack and bass Franz Xaver Gerl. From his wife's company he retained soprano...
a two-act singspiel jointly composed by Johann Baptist Henneberg, BenediktSchack, Franz Xaver Gerl, Emanuel Schikaneder, and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart...
recorded until the 1820s, when the witnesses' memories might have faded. BenediktSchack, Mozart's close friend for whom he wrote the role of Tamino in The...
Many classical and later composers have written compositions in the form of variations on a theme by another composer. This is an incomplete list of such...
composer may instead have been another singer-composer in the troupe, BenediktSchack). Mozart gradually came to participate more in the activities of the...
included his elder colleague Joseph Haydn, singers Franz Xaver Gerl and BenediktSchack, and the horn player Joseph Leutgeb. Leutgeb and Mozart carried on...
ist das herrlichste Ding" from the Singspiel "Der dumme Gartner" by BenediktSchack, K. 613 10 Variations in A major on the French song "Malbrough s'en...
Sieden, Sharon Baker, John Aler, Kevin Deas Martin Pearlman, Boston Baroque CD: Telarc Cat: 80573 (+ Der wohltätige Derwisch [de] by BenediktSchack)...
in collaboration with Johann Baptist Henneberg, Franz Xaver Gerl, BenediktSchack and Emanuel Schikaneder. The only surviving part by Mozart is the duet...
1971) Giacinto Scelsi (1905–1988) Theodor von Schacht (1748–1823) BenediktSchack (Žák) (1758–1826) Pierre Schaeffer (1910–1995) R. Murray Schafer (1933–2021)...
Henry Fuseli, Swiss-English painter and academic (d. 1825) 1758 – BenediktSchack, Czech tenor and composer (d. 1826) 1796 – Thomas Gregson, English-Australian...
longtime colleague Joseph Haydn, the singers Franz Xaver Gerl and BenediktSchack, and the horn Joseph Leutgeb. Leutgeb and Mozart maintained a curious...
Pierre-Gabriel Gardel, choreographer and ballet dancer (died 1840) February 7 – BenediktSchack, operatic tenor and composer (d. 1826) February 12 – Christian Ignatius...
Zeitung (Singspiel), Franz Xaver Gerl and BenediktSchack (1792) Das Schlaraffenland (Singspiel), Gerl and Schack (1794) Der travestirte Hamlet (play), Vincenc...
work to which Mozart contributed a small portion of the music (see BenediktSchack). The fairy tale series culminated with the premiere in September 1791...
Singspiel Die Zween Anton. The couple holding hands are the tenor BenediktSchack (later the first Tamino) and soprano Josepha Hofer (the first Queen...
place, which houses the Monument to Mikoláš Aleš and Matěj Kopecký. BenediktSchack (1758–1826), composer and operatic tenor Matěj Kopecký (1775–1847)...
Andrea Lorenzo Scartazzini (born 1971): Wut, Der Sandmann, Edward II. BenediktSchack (1758–1826): Der Stein der Weisen Pierre Schaeffer (1910–1995): Orphée...
Henneberg died in 1822 in Vienna, aged 53. Der Stein der Weisen, with BenediktSchack, Franz Xaver Gerl, Emanuel Schikaneder and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart...
Pastor in St. Petersburg 148. Savary Eberhard Pastor zu Ascheraden 149. Schack-Steffenhagen H. Buchdruckereibesitzer in Mitau 150. Schalme Jeannot Pastor...
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