Christian Gottlob Neefe

(b Chemnitz, 5 Feb 1748; d Dessau, 26 Jan 1798). German composer. He moved to Bonn in 1779 as music director of a theatre troupe, and from c 1780 taught the young Beethoven the piano, organ, thoroughbass and composition. He became court organist but from 1784 concentrated increasingly on teaching. His output includes nine German stage works (for Leipzig and elsewhere) and many lieder, their dramatic effects and novel forms at times anticipating Schubert. He also wrote instrumental pieces, an autobiography and essays.

Christian Gottlob Neefe (5 February 1748 – 28 January 1798) was a German opera composer and conductor.

Christian Gottlob Neefe

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.

Contents 1 Works 1.1 Operas 1.2 Other works 2 External links

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 in the International Music Score Library Project
• Operone Neefe page, accessed 13 November 2009

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