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    Johann August Apel (17 September 1771 – 9 August 1816) was a German writer and jurist. Apel was born and died in Leipzig. "Der Freischütz" was Apel's version...
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    first two volumes of Johann August Apel and Friedrich Laun's Gespensterbuch (1810–1811), with other stories by Johann Karl August Musäus and Heinrich Clauren...
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  • Johann August Apel (1771–1816), German writer Karl-Otto Apel (1922–2017), German philosopher Katrin Apel (born 1973), former biathlete Willi Apel (1893–1988)...
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    Der Freischütz (category Articles with dead external links from August 2022)
    Weber with a libretto by Friedrich Kind, based on a story by Johann August Apel and Friedrich Laun from their 1810 collection Gespensterbuch. It premiered...
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    August Apel and Friedrich Laun and published in five volumes between 1810 and 1815. The fifth volume was also published as the first volume of Apel and...
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  • Burroughs. The play is based on the German folktale Der Freischütz by Johann August Apel, which had previously been made into an opera by Carl Maria von Weber...
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  • and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire (b. 1673) 1816 – Johann August Apel, German jurist and author (b. 1771) 1861 – Vincent Novello, English composer...
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  • labour. The Freischütz tale became widely circulated in 1810 when Johann August Apel included it as the first tale in the first volume of the Gespensterbuch...
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    Freiersfüssen (1801), was favorably received. He wrote many volumes, and with August Apel edited a ghost story anthology Gespensterbuch ('Book of Ghosts') (1810–1815)...
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    Johann Karl August Musäus (1735–1787), "Der grau Stube" ("The Grey Room") by Heinrich Clauren (1771–1854), and six stories by Johann August Apel (1771–1816)...
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