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He studied in Königsberg. In 1776 he became Kapellmeister in Berlin at the court of Frederick The Great , a post he held until 1794 .

He wrote several Italian operas, two in French and a number of Singspiel , three of them with libretti by Goethe . He is also famous for his songs, and an unsuccessful new genre called the Liederspiel . In his last years at Giebichenstein he was associated with the Romantic movement.


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