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The Seyler Theatre Company, also known as the Seyler Company (German: ''Seylersche Schauspiel-Gesellschaft'', sometimes ''Seylersche Truppe''), was a theatrical company founded in 1769 by Abel Seyler, a Hamburg businessman originally from Switzerland who became "the leading patron of German theatre" in his lifetime.〔Wilhelm Kosch, "Seyler, Abel", in ''Dictionary of German Biography'', eds. Walther Killy and Rudolf Vierhaus, Vol. 9, Walter de Gruyter, 2005, ISBN 3110966298, p. 308〕 It was largely a continuation of the Hamburgische Entreprise, whose dramaturge was Gotthold Ephraim Lessing and whose main owner was Seyler. The Seyler theatrical company became one of the most famous theatrical companies of Europe in the 18th century, attracting some of Germany's leading actors, playwrights and composers. It originally comprised around 60 members, including an orchestra, a ballet, house dramatists and set designers. Between 1777 and 1778 Seyler employed some 230 actors, singers and musicians. The company was originally (from 1769) contracted by the Hanoverian court with performing at Hanover and other cities of the kingdom. The company would eventually perform all across Germany, and performed for three years at the Weimar Schlosstheater, invited by Duchess Anna Amalia of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel. When Anna Amalia succeeded in engaging the Seyler Company, this was "an extremely fortunate coup. The Seyler Company was the best theatre company in Germany at that time."〔"Herzogin Anna Amalie von Weimar und ihr Theater," in Robert Keil (ed.), ''Goethe's Tagebuch aus den Jahren 1776–1782'', Veit, 1875, p. 69〕 The company had an important role in the development of German opera in the late 18th century. A number of plays were written for the Seyler theatrical company. For example the play ''Sturm und Drang'' (which gave its name to the Sturm und Drang period) was written originally for the company by Friedrich Maximilian Klinger (Goethe's childhood friend), then employed as its playwright, and first performed in 1777. In 1789, Abel Seyler's wife, the celebrated actress Friederike Sophie Seyler, published the ''Singspiel'' ''Hüon und Amande'', that was plagiarized by the troupe of Emanuel Schikaneder and also greatly influenced ''The Magic Flute''.〔Peter Branscombe, ''W. A. Mozart: Die Zauberflöte'', Cambridge University Press, 1991, p. 28〕 Threatened by bankruptcy in 1770, the company was saved by Seyler's brother-in-law, Johann Gerhard Reinhard Andreae. ==People associated with the Seylersche Schauspiel-Gesellschaft== *Abel Seyler (director/owner/actor) *Friederike Sophie Seyler, formerly Hensel (actress; wife of the latter) *Konrad Ekhof (actor) *Georgine Ekhof (actress; wife of the latter) *Johann Christian Brandes (actor) *Esther Charlotte Brandes (actress; wife of the latter) *Friedrich Maximilian Klinger (playwright) *Johann Adam Hiller (musical director) *Christian Gottlob Neefe (musical director) *Georg Anton Benda (composer) *Anton Schweitzer (musical director) *Christoph Martin Wieland (librettist)〔Ritchie Robertson, ''Mock-Epic Poetry from Pope to Heine'', Oxford University Press, 2009, ISBN 0191610143〕 *Heinrich Leopold Wagner (dramatist, producer, translator and lawyer)〔Alan Leidner, ''Sturm und Drang: Lenz, Wagner, Klinger, and Schiller: The Soldiers, The Childmurderess, Storm and Stress, and The Robbers'', p. xii, Continuum International Publishing Group, 1992, ISBN 0826407056〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Seyler Theatre Company」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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