Friedrich Fleischmann

Friedrich Fleischmann (1766-1798) was a German composer, born in Marktheidenfeld am Main, who died in Meiningen at the age of 32. He is best known for the lullaby “Schlafe, mein Prinzchen”, long attributed to Mozart, and for his Singspiel “Die Geisterinsel” (Weimar, 1798), based on Shakespeare’s “The Tempest”.