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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Title | Genre | Subdivisions | Libretto | Première date | Place, theatre |
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Johann Adam Hiller) | Der Dorfbarbier (withkomische 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 | Jean-François Marmontel | Moritz August von Thümmel, after5 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 | Cervantes | H F Möller, afterNovember 1777 | Frankfurt |
Adelheit von Veltheim | Schauspiel mit Gesang | 4 acts | Gustav Friedrich Wilhelm Großmann | 23 September 1780 | Frankfurt, Junghof |
Der neue Gutsherr | 3 acts | Marivaux's Le paysan parvenu | Johann Gottfried Dyck and Johann Friedrich Jünger, afterunperformed |