<p>In this episode Cliff Eisen explores Mozart's Masonic links in Vienna, and the relationship between the Masons and Emperor Joseph II. The object, a Masonic Journal from the 1780s, gives clues about some of the pieces with Masonic symbols that Mozart wrote, like the Magic Flute, and works he composed for Masonic Lodges.</p>

A History of Mozart in a Dozen Objects

BBC Radio 3

Object 9: A Masonic periodical published in Vienna in the 1780s

JAN 10, 201110 MIN
A History of Mozart in a Dozen Objects

Object 9: A Masonic periodical published in Vienna in the 1780s

JAN 10, 201110 MIN

Description

<p>In this episode Cliff Eisen explores Mozart's Masonic links in Vienna, and the relationship between the Masons and Emperor Joseph II. The object, a Masonic Journal from the 1780s, gives clues about some of the pieces with Masonic symbols that Mozart wrote, like the Magic Flute, and works he composed for Masonic Lodges.</p>