Biography
Conradin Kreutzer was born on 22 November 1780 in Meßkirch in Baden and received his first musical training from the Benedictines in Zwiefalten and at the Premonstratensian abbey of Schussenried. In 1804 he moved to Vienna, where he studied composition with, among others, Johann Georg Albrechtsberger. From 1812 to 1816 he served as court conductor in Stuttgart, then in Donaueschingen until 1822, before moving to the Kärntnertortheater and the Theater in der Josefstadt in Vienna. His greatest stage success came in 1834 with the opera 'Das Nachtlager in Granada'; he also wrote the incidental music for Ferdinand Raimund's 'Der Verschwender' and numerous four-part male-voice choruses that became widely sung folk repertoire. Kreutzer died on 14 December 1849 in Riga, where he had followed his daughter, the opera singer Marie Kreutzer.
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