Christian Gottlob Neefe
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Christian Gottlob Neefe (5 February 1748 – 28 January 1798) was a German opera composer and conductor.
Neefe was born in Chemnitz, Saxony. He received a musical education and started to compose at the age of 12. He studied law at the University of Leipzig, but subsequently returned to music to become a pupil of the composer Johann Adam Hiller, under whose guidance he wrote his first comic operas.
He later became court organist in Bonn and was a teacher of Ludwig van Beethoven. He helped Beethoven produce some of his first works. His best known work was a Singspiel called Adelheit von Veltheim (1780). He died in Dessau.
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[edit] Works
[edit] Operas
| Title | Genre | Subdivisions | Libretto | Première date | Place, theatre |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Der Dorfbarbier (with Johann Adam Hiller) | komische Operette | 1 act | Christian Felix Weiße, after Michel-Jean Sedaine's Blaise le savetier | 18 April 1771 | Leipzig, Rannstädter Thore |
| Die Apotheke | komische Oper | 2 acts | Johann Jacob Engel | 13 December 1771 | Berlin, Theater in der Behrenstrasse |
| Amors Guckkasten | Operette | 1 act | Johann Benjamin Michaelis | 10 May 1772 | Leipzig |
| Die Einsprüche | komische Oper | 1 act | Johann Benjamin Michaelis | late 1772 | Leipzig, Rannstädter Thore |
| Zemire und Azor | komische Oper | 4 acts | Moritz August von Thümmel, after Jean-François Marmontel | 5 March 1776 | Leipzig (Koberwein Company) |
| Heinrich und Lyda | Drama | 1 act | Bernhard Christian d'Arien | 26 March 1776 | Berlin, (Döbbelin Company) |
| Sophonisbe | musikaliches Drama | 1 act | August Gottlieb Meissner | 12 October 1776 | Leipzig |
| Die Zigeuner | Lustspiel mit gesang | 5 acts | H F Möller, after Cervantes | November 1777 | Frankfurt |
| Adelheit von Veltheim | Schauspiel mit Gesang | 4 acts | Gustav Friedrich Wilhelm Großmann | 23 September 1780 | Frankfurt, Junghof |
| Der neue Gutsherr | 3 acts | Johann Gottfried Dyck and Johann Friedrich Jünger, after Marivaux's Le paysan parvenu | unperformed |
[edit] Other works
- Oden von Klopstock: Serenade for piano and voice. Flensburg 1776
- Twelve piano sonatas
