Friedrich Schneider

Johann Christian Friedrich Schneider (born Alt-Waltersdorf, January 3, 1786 - Dessau, November 23, 1853) was a German composer and conductor.

Schneider studied piano first with his father Johann Gottlob Schneider, and then at the Zittau Gymnasium with Schönfelder and Unger. His first published works were a set of 3 piano sonatas, in 1804; in 1805 he commenced studies at the University of Leipzig. He became organist at St. Thomas's Church, Leipzig in 1812, and was named conductor in Dessau in 1821. It is thought that Schneider premiered Ludwig van Beethoven's Piano Concerto no. 5 in Leipzig in 1811.

Schneider composed copiously. Among his works are 7 operas, 4 masses, 6 oratorios, 25 cantatas, 23 symphonies, 7 piano concertos, sonatas for violin, flute, and cello, and a number of shorter works for voice and for piano, as well as both solo and part songs.

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*Don Randel, "The Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music". Harvard, 1996, pp. 803-804.