Schulz, Johann Abraham Peter (1747–1800)

German composer, conductor, and musicologist. He travelled widely in Europe and held musical posts in Poland, Berlin, and Copenhagen. He also wrote a number of theoretical works, including a treatise on harmony, on which he collaborated with his teacher, Johann Kirnberger.

He travelled in Austria, Italy, and France in 1768, and after holding a post in Poland returned in 1773 to Berlin, where he collaborated with Kirnberger and contributed to Johann Georg Sulzer's (1720–79) encyclopaedia Allgemeine Theorie der schönen Künste (1771–74). He was conductor at the French theatre in Berlin 1776–78, was court composer to Prince Heinrich of Prussia at Rheinsberg 1780–87, then worked at the Danish court in Copenhagen until his return to Germany in 1795.

Works Opera and stage (in French) Clarisse, La Fée Urgèle (after Voltaire, 1782), Le barbier de Séville (after Beaumarchais, 1786), and Aline, reine de Golconde (1787); (in Danish) The Harvest Home (1790), The Entry (1793), and Peter's Wedding; German melodrama Minona; incidental music for Racine's Athalie and other plays.

Sacred and secular music Christi Tod, Maria und Johannes, and other sacred works; chamber music, Lieder im Volkston and many other songs.