Emil Naumann

Emil Naumann (8 September 1827 – 23 June 1888) was a German composer and church musician.

After studying music in Frankfurt, he was a pupil of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy at the Leipzig Conservatory from 1842 to 1844.

In 1850, he succeeded Otto Nicolai as court church music director in Berlin.

Naumann published three volumes of the "Psalms for all Sundays and Holidays of the Protestant Church Year", commissioned by King Frederick William IV of Prussia for the Staats- und Domchor Berlin [de].

From 1873, he taught at the Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber Dresden.

Emil Naumann
Naumann's grave (front) at Trinitatisfriedhof in Dresden