Jean Madeleine Marie [Jean] Schneitzhoeffer (13/10/1785 - 14/10/1852) was a French composer, born in Toulouse, died in Paris. A student of Charles Simon Catel at the Conservatoire de Paris, he won second prize for piano in 1803 and then joined the Opéra as a timpanist in 1815, where (7 years later) he was made chef de chant. Made a professor of choral singing at the Conservatoire, he was granted the Légion d'honneur in 1840. He composed several partitions de ballet for the Opéra de Paris.