Born: 18 or 19 November 1786, Eutin, Bishopric of Lübeck (Germany)
Died: 5 June 1826, London
Operas
- Das Waldmädchen (1800; mostly lost)
- Peter Schmoll und seine Nachbarn (1803)
- Silvana (1810)
- Abu Hassan (1811)
- Der Freischütz (1821)
- Euryanthe (1823)
- Oberon (1826)
- Die drei Pintos (1888; begun 1820–21, completed by Mahler)
