page_title: Die Zwillingsbrüder
hierarchical_section_title: Die Zwillingsbrüder
caption_attribution_description: Wien, Kärntnertortheater, 1830
context_page_description: Die Zwillingsbrüder is a one-act Singspiel composed by Franz Schubert in 1819 on a libretto by Georg Ernst von Hofmann. Die Zwillingsbrüder was first performed at the Kärntnertortheater on June 14, 1820.
  Hofmann based the libretto on the 1818 French vaudeville Les deux Valentin by Marc-Antoine Madeleine Désaugiers and Michel-Joseph Gentil de Chavagnac.
  Die Zwillingsbrüder, like Schubert's other operatic works, met with limited success both at the work's inception and over time. Critics attribute this to the weakness of the libretto as well as to a mismatch between the lightness of the subject matter and the refined nature of Schubert's music. In this work, Schubert's music often approaches the style of Mozart, evoking for instance Die Zauberflöte.
context_section_description: Die Zwillingsbrüder (The Twin Brothers, D. 647) is a one-act Singspiel (sometimes also described as a Posse mit Gesang) composed by Franz Schubert in 1819 on a libretto by Georg Ernst von Hofmann. Die Zwillingsbrüder was first performed at the Kärntnertortheater on June 14, 1820.
  Hofmann based the libretto on the 1818 French vaudeville Les deux Valentin (The Two Valentines) by Marc-Antoine Madeleine Désaugiers and Michel-Joseph Gentil de Chavagnac (1770–1846).
  Die Zwillingsbrüder, like Schubert's other operatic works, met with limited success both at the work's inception and over time. Critics attribute this to the weakness of the libretto as well as to a mismatch between the lightness of the subject matter and the refined nature of Schubert's music. In this work, Schubert's music often approaches the style of Mozart, evoking for instance Die Zauberflöte.
caption: The Kärntnertortheater, where Die Zwillingsbrüder was premièred in 1820. Lithograph, ca. 1830.
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