Christian Gottlob Neefe

Christian Gottlob Neefe

Christian Gottlob Neefe (German: [ˈneːfə]; 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 Leipzig University, but subsequently returned to music to become a pupil of the composer Johann Adam Hiller under whose guidance he wrote his first comic operas.

In 1776 Neefe joined the Seyler theatrical company of Abel Seyler (then) in Dresden, and inherited the position of musical director from his mentor, Hiller. He later became court organist in Bonn and was the principal piano 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). In Bonn, Neefe became prefect of the local chapter of the Illuminati, the Minervalkirche Stagira.[1] He died in Dessau.

Works

Operas

TitleGenreSub­divisionsLibrettoPremière datePlace, theatre
Der Dorfbarbier (with Johann Adam Hiller)komische Operette1 actChristian Felix Weiße, after Michel-Jean Sedaine's Blaise le savetier18 April 1771Leipzig, Rannstädter Thore
Die Apothekekomische Oper2 actsJohann Jacob Engel13 December 1771Berlin, Theater in der Behrenstrasse
Amors GuckkastenOperette1 actJohann Benjamin Michaelis10 May 1772Leipzig
Die Einsprüchekomische Oper1 actJohann Benjamin Michaelislate 1772Leipzig, Rannstädter Thore
Zemire und Azorkomische Oper4 actsMoritz August von Thümmel, after Jean-François Marmontel5 March 1776Leipzig (Koberwein Company)
Heinrich und LydaDrama1 actBernhard Christian d'Arien26 March 1776Berlin, (Döbbelin Company)
Sophonisbemusikaliches Drama1 actAugust Gottlieb Meissner12 October 1776Leipzig
Die ZigeunerLustspiel mit gesang5 actsH F Möller, after CervantesNovember 1777Frankfurt
Adelheit von VeltheimSchauspiel mit Gesang4 actsGustav Friedrich Wilhelm Großmann23 September 1780Frankfurt, Junghof
Der neue Gutsherr3 actsJohann Gottfried Dyck and Johann Friedrich Jünger, after Marivaux's Le paysan parvenuunperformed

Other works

References

  1. Freimaurer-Akten, Bonn, group 5: "Die Brüder des Bonner Illuminatenordens betreffende Papiere", part 4: "Tabelle Tabelle (...) über die Insinuation des Amtskellers Uxfxbx zu Mainz" (i.e. Adam Umpfenbach), manuscript by Glaukus (i.e. Christian Gottlob Neefe), Stagira, 30 Dimeh 1152 (i.e. 30 October 1782), University of Bonn (in German)
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