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Johann Adam Hiller

German composer and conductor

Died when: 75 years 174 days (905 months)
Star Sign: Capricorn

 

Johann Adam Hiller

Johann Adam Hiller (25 December 1728, in Wendisch-Ossig, Saxony – 16 June 1804, in Leipzig) was a German composer, conductor and writer on music, regarded as the creator of the Singspiel, an early form of German opera.

In many of these operas he collaborated with the poet Christian Felix Weiße.Furthermore, Hiller was a teacher who encouraged musical education for women, his pupils including Elisabeth Mara and Corona Schröter.

He was Kapellmeister of Abel Seyler's theatrical company, and became the first Kapellmeister of Leipzig Gewandhaus.


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