Christian Gottlob Neefe

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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Works

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

Other works

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