»Allersorgfältigste Ueberlegung«, Singspiel in North and Central Germany during the Second Half of the Eighteenth Century

German Singspiel in the second half of the eighteenth century is frequently viewed as a genre of superficial, un-important occasional works. »Allersorgfältigste Ueberlegung« [with the most careful consideration], as Johann Friedrich Reichardt described them in 1774, is not how one would expect them to be seen today – with the exception of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s and Joha...