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Updated: October 20, 2026
"Johannn Arendt Happolati!" repeated the man, a little astonished at my vehemence; and with that he grew silent. "You should see his wife!" I said, beside myself. "A fatter creature ... Eh? what? Perhaps you don't even believe she is really fat?" Well, indeed he did not see his way to deny that such a man might perhaps have a rather stout wife.
There, in 1678, some years before the production of Purcell's 'Dido and Æneas, an opera-house was opened with a performance of a Singspiel entitled 'Der erschaffene, gefallene und aufgerichtete Mensch, the music of which was composed by Johannn Theile. Three other works, all of them secular, were produced in the same year.