Joseph Kupelwieser

[2] From 1801 to 1802, Joseph attended the Akademisches Gymnasium and the Erziehungsinstitut (a boarding school) operated by Gaetano Giannatasio del Rio (1764–1828).

[2] He was a member of the Unsinnsgesellschaft (Nonsense Society) from 1817,[2] a group of painters, actors, writers and musicians (like Franz Schubert), who participated in revelries ostensibly devoted to the god "Insanius" (Unsinn).

[citation needed] From 1821, Kupelwieser worked for two years as the dramaturge at the Vienna Court Opera, where he began his activities as a translator, poet and librettist.

Schubert blamed the librettist, writing in a letter to Leopold Kupelwieser that the opera written by his brother "has been declared to be unusable, and in consequence, there has been no demand for my music".

Kupelwieser also wrote the libretto for Die Müllerin von Burgos, a "comédie en vaudevilles" by Franz von Suppé, in addition to translating and editing librettos for operas, mostly from French to German for performances in Vienna, including Boieldieu's Les voitures versées, Meyerbeer's Il crociato in Egitto, Rossini's Le siège de Corinthe and Matilde di Shabran, Donizetti's Les martyrs and Maria di Rohan, Michael William Balfe's The Bohemian Girl, and Ferdinand Hérold's Zampa.