The Magic Flute ideals of Sarastro's community and seeks to join it. Separately, then together, Tamino and Pamina undergo severe trials of initiation, which end in triumph, with the Queen and her cohorts vanquished. The earthy Papageno, who accompanies Tamino on his quest, fails the trials completely but is rewarded anyway with the hand of his ideal female companion Papagena. The opera was the culmination of a period of increasing involvement by Mozart with Schikaneder's theatrical troupe, which since 1789 had been the resident company at the Theater auf der Wieden. Mozart was a close friend of one of the singer-composers of the
Symphony, K. 196+121 (Mozart) Symphony, K. 196+121 (Mozart) The Symphony in D major "No. 51", K. 196+121, was composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in 1774–1775. The first two movements are from the overture to the opera "La finta giardiniera", K. 196, and the last movement, K. 121/207a, was composed separately in 1775. (The dating of the last movement was questioned by Alan Tyson as the paper used was purchased by Mozart in Milan in late 1772 and used until early 1773, but Mozart apparently took some of this paper back to Salzburg and used it in 1776.) \relative c' { </score> The symphony is