Johann Carl Friedrich Rellstab (27 February 1759 – 19 August 1813) was a German composer, writer, music publisher, and critic who was born and died in Berlin.
[2] He planned to continue his education with Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach in Hamburg, when in 1779 he had to take over the printing business of his father.
After losing his property in the War of the Fourth Coalition in 1806, he began teaching music lessons to children.
[2] Around the turn of the century Rellstab began to write criticism for the Vossische Zeitung, the oldest daily in Berlin.
[3] Rellstab's compositions include a Te Deum, a mass, numerous cantatas, lieder, and an unperformed singspiel, Die Apotheke, among other works.