Peter von Braun

Peter von Braun (1758 – 15 November 1819) was an Austrian industrialist, director of the court theatres in Vienna and patron of the arts.

He laid out a park there, which was open to the public, and created a "Temple of the Night", a mystical garden grotto which became a meeting place for the nobility.

It contained inscriptions by August von Kotzebue, and Antonio Salieri, who often visited, composed music for the temple.

He performed in 1801 an arrangement of Mozart's The Magic Flute with a new text by Christian August Vulpius.

[1][3] He married Josephine von Högelmüller (c. 1766 – 1838); piano works by Joseph Haydn, Anton Eberl and others were dedicated to her.