!!!Treitschke, Georg Friedrich

Treitschke, Georg Friedrich, b. Leipzig (Germany), Aug. 29, 1776, 
d. Vienna, June 4, 1842, librettist and translator. 1800 started 
acting at the Imperial Vienna Opera House; 1802 dramatist and poet; 
1809-1814 director of the Theater an der Wien (from 1811 again at the 
Imperial Opera House). Mainly wrote singspiel librettos for P.  
Wranitzky, A.  Gyrowetz and C. Weigl ("Das Waisenhaus"); numerous 
translations of French operas. T. also revised, at L. van  
Beethoven's request, the libretto of "Fidelio" in 1814.

!Literature
M. Zihrasser, G. F. T. und seine Bedeutung fuer 
die Wr. Hoftheater, doctoral thesis, Vienna 1950; U. Arbter, 
G. F. T., Beethovens dritter "Fidelio"-Librettist, 
in Wien, doctoral thesis, Vienna 1997.



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