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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 Philomelenstädt" ("Professor of Contraviolons and member of the philharmonic society of Philomelenstadt)". Philomelenstädt is a fictional city, named after tragic Greek mythical figure Philomela, and is six miles from Flötenhain.
His father was Fürchtegott Auletes, a Pastor at Flötenhain. At 12, Robert attended the Fürstenschule Mönchszelle in Musenhausen.
He became the Kapellmeister at the court of the Prince of Musenhaußen.
