Austrian physicist, librarian and poet (1774–1849) A lithograph of Neumann by Franz Eybl.

Johann Philipp Neumann (27 December 1774 – 3 October 1849) was an Austrian physicist, librarian and poet.

Born in Trebitsch in Moravia, he completed his studies at the University of Vienna. In 1803, he was appointed as a professor of physics at his local lyceum. He was transferred to the University of Graz in 1806, where he became a rector in 1811.

In 1815, he was appointed as a professor at the Polytechnic Ins*ute in Vienna (now the Vienna University of Technology). He founded a library here in 1816, which he directed until 1845.

Neumann was a friend of the composer Franz Schubert. Neumann adapted Georg Forster's translation of Shakuntala as a libretto for an opera, which Schubert commenced in 1820 but never competed. Neumann, a liberal-minded churchman, was interested in simple music designed to appeal to "the widest possible congregation". To this end, he wrote the text of 8 hymns and a translation of the Lord's Prayer, and commissioned the Deutsche Messe from his friend in 1826.

He retired in 1844, and died in Vienna in 1849.

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• Schubertiade
• Angeli senza paradiso
• La Belle Meunière
• Das Dreimäderlhaus
• Franz Schubert
• Gently My Songs Entreat
• The Great Awakening
• It's Only Love
• Schubert's Dream of Spring
• Serenade
• 1928 International Columbia Graphophone Compe*ion

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• Eva Badura-Skoda
• Otto Erich Deutsch
• Walther Dürr
• Julius Epstein
• Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
• Max Friedlaender
• Johann Nepomuk Fuchs
• Therese Grob
• Ernst Hilmar
• Anselm Hüttenbrenner
• Eusebius Mandyczewski
• Johann Mayrhofer
• Elizabeth Norman McKay
• Gustav Nottebohm
• Wilhelm Müller
• Johann Philipp Neumann
• Brian Newbould
• Antonio Salieri
• Franz von Schober
• Ferdinand Schubert
• Johann Senn
• Joseph von Spaun
• Rita Steblin
• Johann Michael Vogl

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