Johann Gottfried [Giovanni] Schwanenberger [Schwanberg, Schwanberger] (28/12/1737 - 29/03/1804), a German piano virtuoso and composer of mainly opera's, born in Wolfenbüttel, died in Brunswick (Braunschweig).
| Author: | Bernd Kaven c.s. |
| Source: | Johann Gottfried Schwanenberger. 1737-1804; ein Wolfenbütteler Komponist. Herzog-August-Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel, 1988 |
| Contributor: | Tassos Dimitriadis (picture) |
Cantata Funèbre
| Period: | Early Romanticism |
| Composed in: | 1801 |
| Musical form: | free |
| In memory of: | the Duchess of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel |
Cantata Funèbre sur la mort de la duchess de Brunswick
| Source: | Dagny Wegner, Requiemvertonungen in Frankreich zwischen 1670 und 1850, Hamburg, 2005 |
The dedicatee must be: Princess Philippine Charlotte of Prussia (German: Philippine Charlotte von Preußen) (born Berlin, 13/03/1716; died Brunswick, 17/02/1801) was a daughter of Frederick William I of Prussia and Sophia Dorothea of Hanover.
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Philippine Charlotte of
Prussia (dedicatee) |