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Ignaz Alberti

Ignaz Alberti (11 April 1760, in Vienna - 31 August 1794, in Vienna) was an Austrian illustrator, engraver and book printer. He employed some 20 engravers in 1787 who applied their skills to cartography and botanical books. After his death his widow managed the printing and publication. [1]

His 1796 Vienna edition of the New Testament was printed and published by his widow, was banned by the Catholic Church, and appeared without imprimatur.

Alberti engraved and printed the frontispiece for the original libretto of Mozart's Die Zauberflöte in Vienna in 1791. He was one of Mozart's fellow Masons in the Lodge Zur gekrönten Hoffung. [2] The frontispiece was so richly embellished with Masonic symbolism that it was removed from all subsequent editions of the libretto. [3]

Another publication to which Mozart contributed his final three lieder (K. 596-8), was the Liedersammlung für Kinder und Kinderfreunde am Clavier published in 1791 by Ignaz Alberti - this was the first in a set of four volumes of children’s songs to be published in Vienna. [4] [5]

Alberti was instrumental in the preparing, printing and publishing many volumes on natural history, librettos, oratory and other topics. Among these were

Alberti is sometimes confused with the engraver Ignaz Albrecht.

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References

  1. "Bibelarchiv - Bibeln in deutscher Sprache von Barbor - Butzen".
  2. Johanna Senigl "Ignaz Alberti, privil. Buchdrucker, Buchhändler und akad. Kupferstecher. Samt Bibliographie seines Lebenswerkes," Mitteilungen der Internationalen Stiftung Mozarteum 49 (2001): 102-125.
  3. "Mozart's Magic Flute"
  4. "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-10-12. Retrieved 2013-10-05.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  5. "Mozart in Wien » das Kinderspiel".