Cantata per il glorioso giorno del nome di sua altezza reale la Principessa Cunegonda di Sassonia - Christmann, Johann Friedrich 1752-1817 (Speyer Zumsteeg, 1790)
Johann Friedrich Christmann was a German Lutheran clergyman, composer of church songs and chamber music, pianist, flautist and music theorist. He studied in Tübingen from 1770, and after two years became an apostolic vicariate. He worked as a tutor in 1777 in Winterthur (Switzerland) and in 1780 in Karlsruhe. In 1783 or 1784 he was appointed minister of Heutingsheim, where he worked for the rest of his life.
Maria Kunigunde von Sachsen (1740-1826) had sung in Hasse's Leucippo but eventually, in 1775, became abbess (coadjutor) of Essen and Thorn. She remained influential at the court of her brother Wenceslas in Koblenz, Elector of Trier.
Keywords: 18th Century (1701-1800); Vocal music; Ode; Poetry; Germany