Franz Mesmer summers he lived on a splendid estate and became a patron of the arts. In 1768, when court intrigue prevented the performance of "La finta semplice" (K. 51), for which the twelve-year-old Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart had composed 500 pages of music, Mesmer is said to have arranged a performance in his garden of Mozart's "Bastien und Bastienne" (K. 50), a one-act opera, though Mozart's biographer Nissen found no proof that this performance actually took place. Mozart later immortalized his former patron by including a comedic reference to Mesmer in his opera "Così fan tutte". In 1774, Mesmer produced an "artificial
Lisuart und Dariolette knight Lisuart to find her lost daughter Dariolette. In the course of his mission, Lisuart has to answer the riddle: "What gives women the most pleasure?" Lisuart und Dariolette Lisuart und Dariolette, oder Die Frage und die Antwort ("Lisuart and Dariolette, or The Question and the Answer") is a 'romantisch-comische Oper' by the German composer Johann Adam Hiller. The libretto was by Daniel Schiebeler based on "La fée Urgèle ou Ce qui plaît aux dames" by Charles Simon Favart, itself derived from The Wife of Bath's Tale by Geoffrey Chaucer. The opera was first performed in a two-act version at