Karl Meisl, or Carl Meisl (30 June 1775 – 8 October 1853) was an accountant in the Imperial Austrian Navy, and a dramatist.

Life

Meisl was born in

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(at that time in the

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) in 1775, and was educated there. In 1800 he was appointed ''Fourier'' (a military officer rank); he was promoted to accounting officer and field warfare commissioner, and moved to Vienna. He rose to become accounting adviser in the naval department of the ''

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''. He retired in 1840; he died in Vienna in 1853 and was buried in .

Dramatic works

He wrote about 200 pieces for the stage. His first play, ''Carolo Carolina'', appeared in 1802, and his last, ''Die blonden Locken'', in 1844. Together with the dramatists

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(1786–1859), he was important during a period in , after the earlier

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-theatre and before the folk theatre of

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and

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Oesterreichisches Biographisches Lexikon. Retrieved 28 July 2019. His plays were mostly performed in the

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in Vienna; leading roles were played by Ferdinand Raimund, , ,

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, Johann Nestroy and Wenzel Scholz.

''The Consecration of the House''

Meisl wrote the text of the cantata ''Die Weihe des Hauses'' (''The Consecration of the House''), for which

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wrote

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; it was written to celebrate the re-opening in October 1822 of the

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in Vienna, rebuilt by

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.Paul Nettl. ''Beethoven Encyclopedia''. Philosophical Library, New York, 1956. Entries "Meisl, Karl" and "Hensler, Karl Friedrich".

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