Peter Josef von Lindpaintner (8 December 1791

1791 in music

-Classical music:*Franz Anton Hoffmeister – String Quartet in F*Joseph Haydn – Symphony No. 96 in D "Miracle"*Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Requiem*Franz Xaver Süssmayr – Concerto Movement in D major for Basset Horn-Opera:...

 – 21 August 1856

1856 in music

- Events :*January - Evan James and his son James James write the words and music of Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau, which later becomes the Welsh national anthem.*March 23 - Richard Wagner completes the score of Die Walküre...

) was a German composer

Composer

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 and conductor

Conducting

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.

Born in Koblenz

Koblenz

Koblenz is a German city situated on both banks of the Rhine at its confluence with the Moselle, where the Deutsches Eck and its monument are situated.As Koblenz was one of the military posts established by Drusus about 8 BC, the...

 as the son of a tenor

Tenor

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, he studied with Peter Winter

Peter Winter

Peter Winter was a German opera composer who followed Mozart and preceded Weber, acting as a bridge between the two in the development of German opera....

 and Joseph Graetz

Joseph Graetz

Joseph Graetz was a German composer, organist, and music educator. In 1790 two of his stage works premiered: the operetta Das Gespenst mit der Trommel and the opera Adelheid von Veltheim...

. From 1819 onwards he was based in Stuttgart

Stuttgart

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. Some of his early operas were Singspiel

Singspiel

A Singspiel is a form of German-language music drama, now regarded as a genre of opera...

e, but under the influence of Carl Maria von Weber

Carl Maria von Weber

Carl Maria Friedrich Ernst von Weber was a German composer, conductor, pianist, guitarist and critic, one of the first significant composers of the Romantic school....

 his interest shifted to romantic opera

Romantische Oper

Romantische Oper was a genre of early nineteenth-century German opera, developed not from the German Singspiel of the eighteenth-century but from the opéras comiques of the French Revolution...

.

His best known opera Der Vampyr

Der Vampyr (Lindpaintner)

Der Vampyr is an opera in three acts by Peter Josef von Lindpaintner. The German libretto by Cäsar Max Hegel was based on a work by Heinrich Ludwig Ritter, based in turn on a French melodrama by Charles Nodier, Pierre Carmouche and Achille de Jouffroy, ultimately traceable to the short novel...

has similarities with Der Freischütz

Der Freischütz

Der Freischütz is an opera in three acts by Carl Maria von Weber with a libretto by Friedrich Kind. It premiered on 18 June 1821 at the Schauspielhaus Berlin...

and the later operas of Richard Wagner

Richard Wagner

Wilhelm Richard Wagner was a German composer, conductor, theatre director, philosopher, music theorist, poet, essayist and writer primarily known for his operas...

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He died in Nonnenhorn

Nonnenhorn

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 on Lake Constance

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 in Bavaria.

Operas

Opus	Title	Genre	Sub­divisions	Libretto	Première date	Place, theatre
20	Demophoon	opera seria Opera seria Opera seria is an Italian musical term which refers to the noble and "serious" style of Italian opera that predominated in Europe from the 1710s to c. 1770...	3 acts	Ignaz Franz Castelli Ignaz Franz Castelli Ignaz Franz Castelli was an Austrian dramatist born in Vienna. He studied law at the university, and then entered the government service....	29 January 1811	Munich Munich Munich The city's motto is "" . Before 2006, it was "Weltstadt mit Herz" . Its native name, , is derived from the Old High German Munichen, meaning "by the monks' place". The city's name derives from the monks of the Benedictine order who founded the city; hence the monk depicted on the city's coat...
94	Der blinde Gärtner, oder Die blühende Aloë	Singspiel Singspiel A Singspiel is a form of German-language music drama, now regarded as a genre of opera...	1 act	August von Kotzebue August von Kotzebue August Friedrich Ferdinand von Kotzebue was a German dramatist.One of Kotzebue's books was burned during the Wartburg festival in 1817. He was murdered in 1819 by Karl Ludwig Sand, a militant member of the Burschenschaften...	10 July 1813 or 21 November 1815	Munich Munich Munich The city's motto is "" . Before 2006, it was "Weltstadt mit Herz" . Its native name, , is derived from the Old High German Munichen, meaning "by the monks' place". The city's name derives from the monks of the Benedictine order who founded the city; hence the monk depicted on the city's coat... , Isartortheater
143	Die Pflegekinder	Singspiel	2 acts	Karl Thienemann	1812 or 19 November 1814	Munich, Isartortheater
148	Die Prinzessin von Cacambo	komische Oper	3 acts	August von Kotzebue	1814 or 2 March 1815	Munich, Isartortheater
151	Die Sternkönigin or: Das Sternenmädchen	romantisch-komisches Volksmärchen	2 acts	J. A. Voß	13 July or September 1815	Munich, Isartortheater
162	Das Christusbild, oder Kunstsinn und Liebe	Singspiel	2 acts		May/June 1816	Stuttgart?
163	Hans Max Giesbrecht von der Humpenburg oder Die neue Ritterzeit	Singspiel	1 act	August von Kotzebue	May or 6 June 1816	Munich, Isartortheater
168	Pervonte, oder Die Wünsche	komisches Oper	3 acts	Lindpaintner, after a tale by Christoph Martin Wieland Christoph Martin Wieland Christoph Martin Wieland was a German poet and writer.- Biography :He was born at Oberholzheim , which then belonged to the Free Imperial City of Biberach an der Riss in the south-east of the modern-day state of Baden-Württemberg...	June or 14 August 1816	Munich, Isartortheater
203	Die Rosenmädchen	Singspiel	3 acts	Lindpaintner and August von Kotzebue, after Emmanuel Théaulon Emmanuel Théaulon Marie-Emmanuel-Guillaume-Marguerite Théaulon de Lambert was a French playwright.A customs inspector, then an inspector of military hospitals, he composed an Ode on the birth of the King of Rome which brought him thanks from Napoleon himself...	3 June 1818	Vienna Vienna Vienna is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Austria and one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city, with a population of about 1.723 million , and is by far the largest city in Austria, as well as its cultural, economic, and political centre... , Theater an der Wien Theater an der Wien The Theater an der Wien is a historic theatre on the Left Wienzeile in the Mariahilf district of Vienna. Completed in 1801, it has seen the premieres of many celebrated works of theatre, opera, and symphonic music...
225	Timantes (revision of Demophoon)	große heroische Oper	3 acts	Franz Xaver Hiemer	22 January 1820	Stuttgart Stuttgart Stuttgart is the capital of the state of Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany. The sixth-largest city in Germany, Stuttgart has a population of 600,038 while the metropolitan area has a population of 5.3 million .... , Hof
231	Sulmona	Oper	3 acts	Lindpaintner and Hiemer, after Christoph Friedrich Bretzner Christoph Friedrich Bretzner Christoph Friedrich Bretzner was a Leipzig merchant famous for writing the libretto to a singspiel Belmont und Constanze, oder Die Entführung aus dem Serail, produced in Berlin and adapted in 1782 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Gottlieb Stephanie as Die Entführung aus dem Serail...	11 April 1823	Stuttgart, Hof
235	Der Bergkönig	romantische Oper Romantische Oper Romantische Oper was a genre of early nineteenth-century German opera, developed not from the German Singspiel of the eighteenth-century but from the opéras comiques of the French Revolution...	3 acts	Karl Hanisch	30 January 1825	Stuttgart, Hof
260	Der Vampyr Der Vampyr (Lindpaintner) Der Vampyr is an opera in three acts by Peter Josef von Lindpaintner. The German libretto by Cäsar Max Hegel was based on a work by Heinrich Ludwig Ritter, based in turn on a French melodrama by Charles Nodier, Pierre Carmouche and Achille de Jouffroy, ultimately traceable to the short novel...	romantische Oper	3 acts	Cäsar Max Heigel		Stuttgart, Hof
268	Die Amazone, oder Der Frauen und der Liebe Sieg	Oper	3 acts	Ludwig Robert	28 September 1831	Stuttgart, Hof
275	Die Bürgschaft	große Oper	3 acts	Friedrich Ludwig Carl Biedenfeld, after Friedrich Schiller Friedrich Schiller Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller was a German poet, philosopher, historian, and playwright. During the last seventeen years of his life , Schiller struck up a productive, if complicated, friendship with already famous and influential Johann Wolfgang von Goethe... 's poem "Die Bürgschaft Die Bürgschaft The Hostage is a 1798 ballad by German poet Friedrich Schiller. He took the idea out of the medieval Latin collection of anecdotes and tales, the Gesta Romanorum.- Synopsis :... "	28 September 1834	Stuttgart, Hof
284	Die Macht des Liedes	komische Oper	3 acts	Ignaz Franz Castelli	13 March 1836	Stuttgart, Hof
295	Die Genueserin	große romantische Oper	2 acts	Carl Philipp Berger	8 February 1839	Vienna Vienna Vienna is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Austria and one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city, with a population of about 1.723 million , and is by far the largest city in Austria, as well as its cultural, economic, and political centre... , Theater am Kärntnertor Theater am Kärntnertor Theater am Kärntnertor or Kärntnertortheater was a prestigious theatre in Vienna during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries...
332	Die sicilianische Vesper	große romantische Oper	4 acts	Heribert Rau	6 or 10 May 1843	Stuttgart
364	Lichtenstein	große Oper	5 acts	Franz Dingelstedt, after Wilhelm Hauff Wilhelm Hauff Wilhelm Hauff was a German poet and novelist.-Early life:Hauff was born in Stuttgart, the son of August Friedrich Hauff, a secretary in the ministry of foreign affairs, and Hedwig Wilhelmine Elsaesser Hauff... 's novel Lichtenstein Lichtenstein (novel) Lichtenstein is a historical novel by Wilhelm Hauff, first published in 1826, the year before his early death. Set in and around Württemberg, it is considered his greatest literary success next to his fairy-tales, and, together with the work of the almost forgotten Benedikte Naubert, represents the...	26 August 1846	Stuttgart
446	Giulia, oder die Corsen	Oper	4 acts	August Lewald August Lewald August Lewald was a German author.-Biography:Lewald was born at Königsberg. He entered the Russian service at Warsaw, as secretary, during the War of Liberation. He became an actor, and after 1818 he was manager and director of theatres at Hamburg, Stuttgart, and elsewhere...	20 November 1853	Stuttgart
481	Libella	Oper	2 acts		composed in 1855, but unperformed

External links

• Operone list of works