Christoph Ernst Friedrich Weyse

[1][2] Weyse was born at Altona in Holstein, which was in a personal union with Denmark.

While in Copenhagen, he studied music with Johann Abraham Peter Schulz.

Schulz helped Weyse get an unpaid internship at the Reformed Church in Copenhagen.

[3] He was best known for his vocal works, which included numerous singspiele, Christmas carols, a setting of the Te Deum and of the Miserere, over 30 cantatas,[1] and above all, lieder after poems by Matthias Claudius, Johann Heinrich Voss and Ludwig Christoph Heinrich Hölty.

A part of one of his works opens the "Cat's Duet" or "Duetto buffo di due gatti" usually attributed to Rossini.

C. E. F. Weyse, painted by C. A. Jensen
Title page of Romancer og Sange (published 1853)