Christoph Friedrich Bretzner (10 December 1748 – 31 August 1807) was a Leipzig merchant famous for writing the

libretto A libretto (Italian for "booklet") is the text used in, or intended for, an extended musical work such as an opera, operetta, masque, oratorio, cantata or Musical theatre, musical. The term ''libretto'' is also sometimes used to refer to the t ...

to a

singspiel A Singspiel (; plural: ; ) is a form of German-language music drama, now regarded as a genre of opera. It is characterized by spoken dialogue, which is alternated with ensembles, songs, ballads, and arias which were often strophic, or folk-like ...

entitled'' Belmont und Constanze, oder Die Entführung aus dem Serail'', produced in Berlin and adapted in 1782 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Gottlieb Stephanie as '' Die Entführung aus dem Serail''.MozartProject.org K. 384
He died on 31 August 1807 after arriving for a theatrical performance in Leipzig.

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18th-century German businesspeople German opera librettists Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's librettists Writers from Leipzig 1748 births 1807 deaths 18th-century German writers 18th-century German male writers {{Opera-bio-stub