Romanticism · Germany and Austria
1786 – 1826
Eutin - London
Review
Alumno of Michael Haydn, was director of the Prague opera and then chapel master in Dresden, where he fought for an opera in German in front of the Italian domain.
Der Freischütz (Berlin, 1821), with its forests, hunters and supernatural forces, was the great manifesto of German romantic opera and had a decisive influence on Wagner. He died in London shortly after Oberon premiered.
Main works
- Concerts for clarinet No. 1 and No. 2 (1811)
- Concert for clarinet op. 26 (1811)
- Invitation to dance op. 65 (1819)
- Opera Der Freischütz (1821)
- Konzertstück for piano and orchestra op. 79 (1821)
- Euryanthe Opera (1823)
- Opera Oberon (1826)
