Naumann, Johann Gottlieb (1741–1801)

German composer. At the age of 16 he accompanied the Swedish violinist Wesström to Hamburg, then to Italy, where he studied with Tartini, Hasse, and Padre Martini. He produced his first opera in Venice in 1763, and the following year was appointed to the court at Dresden as second composer of church music. He revisited Italy to produce operas 1765–68 and 1772–74, and in 1776 became kapellmeister in Dresden, where, apart from visits to Stockholm, Copenhagen, and Berlin, he remained till his death. His opera Gustav Vasa was revived in Stockholm in 1991.

Works Opera Achille in Sciro (1767), La clemenza di Tito (1769), Solimano, Armida (1773), Ipermestra, Amphion (1778), Cora och Alonzo (1782), Gustaf Vasa (1786); all three in Swedish, Orpheus og Euridice (in Danish, 1786), Protesilao (with Reichardt), La dama soldato (1790), Aci e Galatea (1801), and others.

Church music and oratorios 21 Masses, other church music, 13 oratorios.