Christian Gottlob Neefe

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.

Works

Operas

Title	Genre	Sub­divisions	Libretto	Première date	Place, theatre
DorfbarbierDer Dorfbarbier (with Johann Adam Hiller)	komische Operette	1 act	WeisseChristian Felix Weiße, after Michel-Jean Sedaine's Blaise le savetier	1771-04-1818 April 1771	Leipzig, Rannstädter Thore
ApothekeDie Apotheke	komische Oper	2 acts	EngelJohann Jacob Engel	1771-12-1313 December 1771	Berlin, Theater in der Behrenstrasse
Amors Guckkasten	Operette	1 act	MichaelisJohann Benjamin Michaelis	1772-05-1010 May 1772	Leipzig
EinsprücheDie Einsprüche	komische Oper	1 act	MichaelisJohann Benjamin Michaelis	1772-99-00late 1772	Leipzig, Rannstädter Thore
Zemire und Azor	komische Oper	4 acts	ThümmelMoritz August von Thümmel, after Jean-François Marmontel	1776-03-055 March 1776	Leipzig (Koberwein Company)
Heinrich und Lyda	Drama	1 act	ArienBernhard Christian d'Arien	1776-03-2626 March 1776	Berlin, (Döbbelin Company)
Sophonisbe	musikaliches Drama	1 act	MeissnerAugust Gottlieb Meissner	1776-10-1212 October 1776	Leipzig
ZigeunerDie Zigeuner	Lustspiel mit gesang	5 acts	MöllerH F Möller, after Cervantes	1777-11-00November 1777	Frankfurt
Adelheit von Veltheim	Schauspiel mit Gesang	4 acts	GroßmannGustav Friedrich Wilhelm Großmann	1780-09-2323 September 1780	Frankfurt, Junghof
neueDer neue Gutsherr		3 acts	DyckJohann Gottfried Dyck and Johann Friedrich Jünger, after Marivaux's Le paysan parvenu	9999-99-99unperformed

Other works

• Oden von Klopstock: Serenade for piano and voice. Flensburg 1776
• Twelve piano sonatas

External links

• Free scores by Christian Gottlob Neefe at the International Music Score Library Project
• Operone Neefe page, accessed 13 November 2009

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Name	Neefe, Christian Gottlob
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Date of birth	5 February 1748
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Date of death	28 January 1798
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