Karl Friedrich Hensler (1 February 1759 – 24 November 1825)Karl Friedrich Hensler
data.bnf.fr. Retrieved 25 January 2018. was a dramatist and theatre manager in Vienna.

Life

Hensler was born in

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in 1759, son of a ducal physician of Württemberg, and studied at the

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. From 1784 he lived in Vienna, where an uncle sought to obtain a diplomatic career for him. Karl von Marinelli, manager of the

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in Vienna, staged his play ''Der Soldat von Cherson'', which opened on 1 May 1785. After its success, Hensler wrote many more plays for this theatre; his plays include ''Das Donauweibchen'', ''Die Nymphe der Donau'' and ''Die Teufelsmühle am Wienerberg''.Paul Nettl (1956). ''Beethoven Encyclopedia''.

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, New York. Entries "Hensler, Karl Friedrich" and "Overtures". When Marinelli died in 1803, Hensler leased the Leopoldstadt Theatre and managed it until 1813. He took over the

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in Vienna in 1817, and the following year theatres in Pressburg (present-day

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) and Baden. In Vienna he rebuilt the

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; it opened in 1822 with

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's overture written for the occasion, '' The Consecration of the House''. Hensler died in Vienna in 1825. His daughter Josepha von Scheidlin took over the management of the Josefstadt Theatre.

References

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