The libretto was initially set to music by Johann Friedrich Anton Fleischmann for a Singspiel that premiered in 1798 in Weimar under Goethe's direction. However, Fleischmann's setting did not achieve significant success and was overshadowed by Johann Friedrich Reichardt's second setting of Die Geisterinsel, which premiered in Berlin in 1798. Subsequently, five more musical adaptations of the libretto were composed in 1879, and another version by Johann Rudolf Zumsteeg premiered in Dresden in 1805.
References
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