They speak in a slightly bored inflection in a nasal Viennese dialect known as Schönbrunnerdeutsch, or German as spoken at the Habsburg Imperial Court at Schönbrunn.
Buckingham Palace | Crystal Palace | Palace of Versailles | Palace of Westminster | The Crystal Palace | Crystal Palace F.C. | Royal Palace | Alexandra Palace | palace | Lambeth Palace | Caesars Palace | Winter Palace | Blenheim Palace | St James's Palace | Crystal Palace National Sports Centre | Palace Theatre | Mayor of the Palace | Crystal Palace, London | The Hollywood Palace | Old Summer Palace | Hampton Court Palace | Tuileries Palace | Apostolic Palace | Royal Palace of Madrid | Luxembourg Palace | Kensington Palace | Christiansborg Palace | Watford Palace Theatre | Summer Palace | Schleissheim Palace |
Mozart wrote the opera as his entry in a musical competition sponsored on February 7, 1786 by Holy Roman Emperor Joseph II at the Schönbrunn Palace in Vienna.
After studying botany at the University of Vienna, he obtained a position at the Imperial Botanical Gardens of the Schönbrunn Palace in Vienna, where he acquired technical skills and participated in a botanical survey of the site.