Father Rufinus Widl (26 September 1731 – 12 March 1798) was a Bavarian
Benedictine monk
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and a lecturer at
Salzburg University
The University of Salzburg (german: Universität Salzburg), also known as the Paris Lodron University of Salzburg (''Paris-Lodron-Universität Salzburg'', PLUS), is an Austrian public university in Salzburg municipality, Salzburg state, named af ...
from 1767 until his death.
Widl was born in Frauenwörth,
Frauenchiemsee
The island Frauenchiemsee, often called Fraueninsel (), is the second largest of the three islands in Chiemsee, Germany. It belongs to the municipality of Chiemsee in the Upper Bavarian district of Rosenheim, which is the smallest municipality i ...
, Bavaria.
["Rufinus Widl"]
Regesta Ecclesiastica Salisburgensia (REA) Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Salzburg
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Salzburg ( la, Archidioecesis Salisburgensis) is an archdiocese of the Latin Rite of the Roman Catholic Church in Austria. The archdiocese is one of two Austrian archdioceses, serving alongside the Archdiocese of ...
He wrote a dissertation on ''Elementibus logicae'' in 1751. His most famous work today is the opera ''
Apollo et Hyacinthus'' to music by
Mozart
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (27 January 17565 December 1791), baptised as Joannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart, was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical period. Despite his short life, his rapid pace of composition r ...
; it was an entr'acte to a play performed by students at the university, ''Clementia Croesi'', which was also written by Father Widl, and first performed in 1767. Another opera, ''Filii in parentum amor'', was performed at Salzburg University in 1765 with music by . Widl died in
Obing, Bavaria.
References
Further reading
* Thomas Lederer, "The clemency of Rufinus Widl: Text and context of W. A. Mozart's first opera." ''Humanistica Lovaniensia'' 58 (2009), 217-373. (Textus ''Clementiae Croesi'' et ''Apollinis et Hyacinthi'' cum versionibus Anglice recensis)
* Albert Orel, ''Apollo et Hyacinthus.'' Neue Mozart-Ausgabe II/5/1. Kassell: Bärenreiter, 1990.
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1731 births
1798 deaths
Austrian Benedictines
Austrian opera librettists
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