Kunzen, Friedrich Ludwig Aemilius (1761–1817)

German conductor and composer. He was a pupil of his father, Adolph Karl Kunzen (1720–81). Having given up legal studies, he went to the Copenhagen Opera, where he produced his first work. After a period in Berlin, where he edited a music journal with Johann Reichardt, he went as a conductor in 1792 to Frankfurt, where he produced his only German opera, and in 1794 to Prague. He returned to Copenhagen in 1795 as director of the Opera.

Works Operas Holger Danske (1789), Ossians Harfe, Hemmeligheden (1796), Dragedukken (1797), Erik Ejegod (1798), Min Bedstemoder, Kærlighed paa Landet, Stormen (based on The Tempest).