Heinrich Conrad Schleinitz (* 1805 in Zechanitz for chub , † 1881 in Leipzig ) was a German jurist and tenor .
Schleinitz was born in 1805, the son of a school headmaster in Zechanitz. He was a pupil at the Thomas School in Leipzig . After graduation he studied law at the University of Leipzig . He received a doctorate in the Dr. iur. and worked as a lawyer in Leipzig. Later he received a musical education. He entered 1830 as a tenor at a festival in Halle in 1848 and sang Mendelssohn's Elijah in Leipzig. After him to the Board of the Leipzig Gewandhaus ordered, he set in 1835 for Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy , Office of the Gewandhaus one. Between the two was a lifelong friendship. So he was A Midsummer Night's Dream and night song dedicated. After Mendelssohn's death in 1847, he became director of the Leipzig Conservatory . Schleinitz died in 1881, in almost complete blindness , in Leipzig.