Friedrich Fleischmann


Johann Friedrich Anton Fleischmann was a German composer.

Life and career

He studied at Mannheim with Ignaz Holzbauer and Georg Joseph Vogler before going to the University of Würzburg. He then became private secretary and tutor to the Regierungs-präsident at Regensburg in 1786, before going on to be cabinet secretary to Georg I, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen. In 1792 he married at Themar Johanna Christiane Louise von Schulthes. They had several children.
He composed orchestral and chamber works, songs and Singspiele. His main work was the Singspiel Die Geisterinsel after Shakespeare's The Tempest, that premiered in 1798 in Weimar.
According to Goretzki/Krickenberg, the song "Schlafe mein Prinzchen Schlaf ein", often attributed to Mozart or Bernhard Flies, was composed by Fleischmann.

Successors

His son W. Th. Fleischmann, had a son F.C.W. Alexander J. Fleischmann. Alexander J. Fleischmann translated the book Looking Backward by Edward Bellamy into German.. During one year seven editions were printed.
B.A. Johanna Müller, daughter of Alexander Fleischmann, was a writer, painter and translator; she painted landscapes.