Robert Auletes

From the 1823 German language novel Leben des Musikus Robert Auletes. Text zu einer noch unkomponirten Oper in den Pausen eines Concerts zu lesen und für zarte Seelen geschrieben (Life of musician Robert Auletes. Text to a still unfinished [or uncomposed?] Opera to read in the pauses of a concert and written for tender souls).

It was written by Ernst Ortlepp under the pseudonym Johannes Paulus, "Professor des Contraviolons und Mitglied der philharmonischen Gesellschaft zu Philomelenstadt" ("Professor of Contraviolons and member of the philharmonic society of Philomelenstadt)". Philomelenstadt is a fictional city, named after tragic Greek mythical figure Philomela.

External Links

• https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_T-ksAAAAYAAJ
• https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nyp.33433082264767
• http://ernst-ortlepp.de/onewebmedia/Musikschriftsteller.pdf