Mozart and Freemasonry and Gazzaniga's "La Circe", operas that have no connection with Freemasonry The following is a list of surviving works that Mozart composed for performance at gatherings of Masons. The story and music of his opera "The Magic Flute" is also considered to have strong Masonic influences. The following is a partial list of family members, patrons, and colleagues who were Masons. Mozart's grandfather Johann Georg, a bookbinder, was raised among the extended Mozart family in Augsburg, in the house of Johann's own grandfather David Mozart. David and his children were distinguished architects and master "operative" (craft) masons of the Augsburg
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Prague Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Prague There is no question that the Praguers of the late eighteenth century exhibited a special appreciation for the music of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, even though, as recently pointed out by Daniel E. Freeman, confirmations of this fact attributed to Mozart himself in sayings such as "" ("My Praguers understand me") have only come down to posterity second or third hand. Perhaps the most valuable direct testimony that attests to the discernment of the musical public in Prague with regard to Mozart's music comes from Lorenzo Da Ponte, the librettist of Mozart's opera "Don Giovanni", which