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. Educated at 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 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.

[edit] Selected works

• Der Dorfbarbier, Singspiel (with Johann Adam Hiller) 1771
• Die Apotheke: Singspiel in two acts. Leipzig, 1771
• Oden von Klopstock: Serenade for piano and voice. Flensburg 1776
• Die Zigeuner: Singspiel 1777
• Sophonisbe 1778
• Adelheit von Veltheim: Singspiel in four acts. Leipzig, 1780
• Twelve piano sonatas