Aloys Blumauer, also known as Alois Blumauer or Johannes Aloysius Blumauer, (21 or 22 December 1755

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- 16 March 1798

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) was an

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Biography

His works, which are chiefly coarse satires on the clergy and on the

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(of which he himself had become a member a year before its dissolution in 1773), enjoyed a wide popularity. He is remembered, however, chiefly for his ''Abenteuer des frommen Helden Æneas'' (1784–88; published with introduction and commentary by E. Griesbach, 1872), a coarse

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''. His complete works (''Sämmtliche Werke'') appeared after his death in four volumes (1801–03; republished 1884). Blumauer was also an acquaintance of

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, collaborating on the song "Lied der Freiheit" (KV. 506) with him in 1786.

Sources

* This work in turn cites: ** Hofmann-Willenhof, ''Aloys Blumauer'' (Vienna, 1885)

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