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5 unusual facts about Mozart and Freemasonry


Mozart and Freemasonry

According to Otto Erich Deutsch, this lodge was "the largest and most aristocratic in Vienna. ... Mozart, as the best of the musical 'Brothers,' was welcome in all the lodges."

This figure appears in Mozart's opera The Magic Flute in the overture, suggesting the opening of the Masonic initiation.

This view appears in Mozart's operas; for example, in The Marriage of Figaro, an opera based on a play by Pierre Beaumarchais (another Freemason), the lowly-born Figaro is the hero and the Count Almaviva is the boor.

The story and music of his opera The Magic Flute is also considered to have strong Masonic influences.

The Masonic Funeral Music (Maurerische Trauermusik), K. 477/479a, no later than November 1785.



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