Johann Christian Friedrich Hæffner
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Johann Christian Friedrich Hæffner (2 March 1759 in Oberschönau – 28 May 1833 in Uppsala) was a German-born Swedish composer.
Hæffner received his first musical education with the Schmalkalden organist Johann Gottfried Vierling. He studied in Leipzig from 1776, and worked as a conductor in Frankfurt am Main and Hamburg 1778-1780. He came to Stockholm in 1780 as conductor of a theatre troupe, and found employment there as an organist. He was employed at the Royal Theatre in Stockholm from 1783, became second conductor in 1793 and first conductor in 1799.
In 1808, he moved to Uppsala, where he became Director Musices of the university and simultaneously was employed as organist of the cathedral.
Hæffner composed three operas, theatre music, a mass, songs with piano accompaniment, and was responsible for the new Swedish choral book. Noteworthy is his oratorio Försonaren på Golgatha ("The Saviour on Golgatha").
[edit] Works
- Den svartsjuke sin egen rival, eller Sängkammareko (The Jelous is his own Rival, or Bed Chamber Echo"), theatre music, 1784
- Electra, opera, libretto by Adolf Fredrik Ristell after Nicolas François Guillard, 1787
- Alcides' inträde i världen, Opera in one act, Libretto by Abraham Niclas Clewberg-Edelcrantz 1793
- Renaud, Opera, Libretto by N. B. Sparrschöld after Torquato Tasso 1801
- Arias for Äfventyraren by Johan Magnus Lannerstjerna and for Eremiten by August von Kotzebue
