A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Zwillingsbrüder, Die

ZWILLINGSBRÜDER, DIE, or The Twin Brothers. A farce in one act, words translated by Hofmann from the French, and set to music by Schubert. It contains an overture and ten numbers, and the autograph (in the Library of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde at Vienna) is dated Jan. 1819. It was produced at the Kärnthnerthor theatre on June 14, 1820. Vogl sang in it, and was much applauded, but the piece did not survive more than six representations. The main incident of the plot is the same as in Box and Cox. The PF. score was published by Peters, 1872. [See Schubert, vol. iii. p. 330b, 332b.]

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