Mineralogy and Magic Flute
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It is suggested that the story of The Magic Flute owes much to alchemy and related early mineralogy; the operaÕs architectonic structure, including its musical structure, owes much to numerology. The plot is in large part an allegorical account or description of the alchemical process and the production of the PhilosophersÕ Stone from the prima materia stibnite (spiessglanz) (antimony trisulphide). In particular it is argued that the amalgamation procedures brought to prominence by the researches of Ignaz von BORN most likely provided the ideas behind, if not the immediate direct source of, the main storyline of the opera.
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