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Johann Adam Hiller
Johann Adam Hiller
(25 December 1728,
Wendisch-Ossig
,
Saxony
– 16 June 1804,
Leipzig
) was a
German
composer
,
conductor
and writer on music, regarded as the creator of the
Singspiel
, an early form of German opera. In many of these operas he collaborated with the poet
Christian Felix Weiße
. Furthermore, Hiller was a teacher who encouraged musical education for women, his pupils including
Elisabeth Mara
and
Corona Schröter
. He was
Kapellmeister
of
Abel Seyler
's
theatrical company
, and became the first Kapellmeister of
Leipzig Gewandhaus
.
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