sentences:  This is the home key of "The Magic Flute" (the opera begins and ends in this key), but this may have nothing to do with Mozart's key choice.Branscombe suggests instead that Mozart tailored the music (his normal practice) to the singer who premiered it, his friend the composer/tenor Benedikt Schack, specifically setting the key so that the conspicuous high note to which the first syllable of "Bildnis" is sung would be Schack's high G