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In 1782 appeared "Die Entführung aus dem Serail," his first really important opera, full of beautiful airs, which at once became enormously popular with the Viennese. The Emperor Joseph II. knew very little about music, but, as frequently happens in such cases, considered that he possessed prodigious taste.
I had to sigh and sue until I was nigh unto despair before I was successful." "But you concluded both works on the same day." "Yes, sire. First, that which lay in my head, and then that which was nearest my heart." "I congratulate you upon the success of both. 'Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail' is a charming opera. Charming, but it contains too many notes."
Then came the band of the serail, consisting of three hundred dwarfs, hideous indeed to behold, but the most complete musicians in the world. The steeds of Solomon, in number one hundred, each with a natural star upon its front, uncaparisoned, and led only by a bridle of diamonds. The household of Alroy and Schirene.
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