Christian Gottlob Neefe
Christian Gottlob Neefe (German: [ˈneːfə]; 5 February 1748 – 28 January 1798) was a German opera composer and conductor. He was known as one of the first teachers of Ludwig van Beethoven.
Life and career
Neefe was born in Chemnitz, Saxony. He received a musical education and started to compose at the age of 12. He studied law at Leipzig University, but subsequently returned to music to become a pupil of the composer Johann Adam Hiller under whose guidance he wrote his first comic operas.
In 1776 Neefe joined the
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.
Works
Operas
Title | Genre | Subdivisions | Libretto | Première date | Place, theatre |
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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 |
Other works
- Oden von Klopstock: Serenade for piano and voice. Flensburg 1776
- Variations on the Priestermarsch aus der Zauberflöte
- Twelve piano sonatas
- Rondo in C major
References
- i.e. Adam Umpfenbach), manuscript by Glaukus (i.e. Christian Gottlob Neefe), Stagira, 30 Dimeh 1152 (i.e. 30 October 1782), University of Bonn(in German)