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Christian Gottlob Neefe
Person · male · Electorate of Saxony · Chemnitz · born 1748 · died 1798 · recording since 2012
German composer and conductor (1748–1789)
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Also known as 克里斯蒂安·戈特洛布·内费
Timeline
4 events◦ Birth 1† Death 1★ Debut release 1▣ Album 1
1740s
1790s
2010s
· Debut release
Debut release: Neefe: Twelve Sonatas (1773) / Beethoven: Nine Variations for Keyboard on a March by Dressler, WoO 63
First documented Album in the MusicBrainz discography.
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· Album
Album: Neefe: Twelve Sonatas (1773) / Beethoven: Nine Variations for Keyboard on a March by Dressler, WoO 63
Album
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Biography
English biography196 words · 3 sectionssource: wikipedia-en · licence CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1351882125
Biography
Christian Gottlob Neefe (German: [ˈneːfə]; 5 February 1748 – 28 January 1798) was a German opera composer and conductor. He was known as one of the first teachers of Ludwig van Beethoven.
Life and career
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. He died in 1798 in Dessau, 8 days before his 50th birthday.
Other works
Oden von Klopstock: Serenade for piano and voice. Flensburg 1776
Variations on the Priestermarsch aus der Zauberflöte
Twelve piano sonatas
Rondo in C major
Discography & profile
Normalised profile
Percentiles are computed over every artist in the database, so a tier-3 artist can still sit in the 95th percentile on a single axis.
| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 28 | 89th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 1 | 73.9th |
| Studio albums | 1 | 76th |
| Awards recorded | 0 | 0th |
| Timeline events | 4 | 75.9th |
| Recording span (years) | -214 | 3.1th |
| Genres | 1 | 56th |
Percentiles are computed at render time; missing values mean the artist has no data on that axis.
Discography (1 release groups · 1 studio albums)
Albums · 1
2012 · studio album
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Tracklist · 35 tracks · 2:06:33
Disc 11Sonata I in D minor: Allegro con spirito3:502Sonata I in D minor: Poco adagio3:583Sonata I in D minor: Allegretto2:554Sonata II in D major: Allegretto grazioso4:035Sonata II in D major: Tempo di Minuetto2:416Sonata III in G major: Vivace4:047Sonata III in G major: Andante con tenerezza2:568Sonata III in G major: Allegro assai2:259Sonata IV in C minor: Allegro3:3910Sonata IV in C minor: Andante con gusto1:3311Sonata IV in C minor: Presto2:2412Sonata V in C major: Allegro moderato5:4113Sonata V in C major: Largo e mesto4:0414Sonata V in C major: Allegro e scherzando1:4315Sonata VI in F major: Poco lento e languido8:0016Sonata VI in F major: Tempo di Minuetto3:0317Sonata VII in B-flat major: Allegro4:4318Sonata VII in B-flat major: Arioso ed un poco sostenuto3:0519Sonata VII in B-flat major: Molto presto3:47Disc 21Sonata VIII in E-flat major: Allegretto e cantabile4:582Sonata VIII in E-flat major: Poco largo2:593Sonata VIII in E-flat major: Presto1:584Sonata IX in C minor: Moderato4:245Sonata IX in C minor: Minuetto3:016Sonata IX in C minor: Polacca1:337Sonata X in C major: Con gusto3:408Sonata X in C major: Minuetto1:209Sonata X in C major: Rondeau1:3010Sonata XI in D major: Allegro con spirito3:2111Sonata XI in D major: Andante con gravità2:1212Sonata XI in D major: Minuetto2:3013Sonata XII in A major: Tempo giusto2:5314Sonata XII in A major: Minuetto3:5815Sonata XII in A major: Alla polacca2:0516Nine Variations for Keyboard on a March by Ernst Christoph Dressler, WoO 6315:37
Stats & PK
Percentile within all 23,672 published artists.Put Christian Gottlob Neefe head-to-head →
| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 28 | 89th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 1 | 73.9th |
| Studio albums | 1 | 76th |
| Awards recorded | 0 | 0th |
| Timeline events | 4 | 75.9th |
| Recording span (years) | -214 | 3.1th |
| Genres | 1 | 56th |
Awards & honours
Where this record comes from
portrait—Wikimedia Commons · Public domain · retrieved 11 October 2026
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Christian_Gottlob_Neefe%27s_Portrait.jpgaliases/urls—musicbrainz · CC0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://musicbrainz.org/artist/c9fb68ad-a664-4310-bb62-b819c284ab44discography—musicbrainz · CC0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://musicbrainz.org/artist/c9fb68ad-a664-4310-bb62-b819c284ab44core—wikidata · CC0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q213556genre—wikidata · CC0 · retrieved 11 October 2026
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q213556seed-list—wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Gottlob_Neefebiography—wikipedia-en · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Gottlob_Neefe
Why this artist is in the database
- List of composers by name
Tier rule: notable long tail (listeners 0, 28 language versions)
Image: Unidentified painter · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
Wikidata: Q213556 · MusicBrainz: c9fb68ad-a664-4310-bb62-b819c284ab44
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