Christian Gottlob Neefe
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Christian Gottlob Neefe (Chemnitz, 5 February 1748 – 28 January 1798 in Dessau) was a German opera composer and conductor.
Educated in the university of Leipzig, he was a pupil of Johann Adam Hiller, under whose guidance he wrote his first comic operas. He later became court organist in Bonn and was a teacher of Beethoven. His best known work was a Singspiel called Adelheit von Veltheim (1780).