Friedrich Fleischmann

Who was Friedrich Fleischmann?

Johann Friedrich Anton Fleischmann was a German composer.

He studied at Mannheim with Ignaz Holzbauer and Georg Joseph Vogler before going to the University of Würzburg. He then became private secretary and tutor to the Regierungs-präsident at Regensburg in 1786, before going on to be cabinet secretary to Georg I, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen. 1792 he married at Themar Johanna Christiane Louise von Schulthes. They had several children.

He composed orchestral and chamber works, songs and Singspiele. His main work was the Singspiel Die Geisterinsel after Shakespeare's The Tempest.

According to Goretzki/Krickenberg, the song "Schlafe mein Prinzchen Schlaf ein", often attributed to Mozart or Bernhard Flies, was composed by Fleischmann.