The thesis explores the connection between German writer Johann Wolfgang Goethe and Austrian composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. From the beginning of his literary creation, we can perceive elements of music in Goethe's work. He first listened to Mozart as a fourteen year old boy in Frankfurt and he became familiar with his virtuosity and composing talent. From then on Mozart's music inspired him; during his time, as the manager of the theatre in Weimar, Mozart's operas appeared on the stage many times, altogether two hundred and eighty times. He also wrote the continuation of Mozart's Opera The Magic Flute, titled The Magic Flute's Second Part. Similarities could also be drawn between Goethe's play Iphigenia in Tauris and Mozart's opera The Abduction from the Seraglio; and between Goethe's Faust and Mozart's Don Giovanni. The art song The Violet represents the contact point between Goethe and Mozart, as Mozart set the music to Goethe's poem.
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