Carl Friedrich Ebers (* March 25, 1770 in Kassel; † September 9, 1836 in Berlin) was a German composer and Kapellmeister.
He became famous through various compositions (songs, operas) as well as through music lessons. In 1799 he entered the service of Duke Friedrich Franz I of Mecklenburg in Schwerin and was appointed by him as the chamber composer and vice capellmeister.
In order to ensure his livelihood and provide for himself with his compositions, he wrote piano music, chamber music, dances and marches, gave music and lessons conducted concert tours in Northern Germany. From 1805 he succeeded in being employed as music director at smaller theatres in Pest. Here he also wrote his Op. 19 in 1806 - 6 slow and 6 Viennese waltzes which were printed in Leipzig as orchestral parts and as piano editions. It became the world's first Viennese waltz.[1]
From 1814 he became music director of the ''Joseph Secondaschen Operngesellschaft'' im Lincke'schen Bad in Dresden (succeeding E. T. A. Hoffmann) and from 1817 of the latter in Magdeburg. In Dresden, he came into contact with Freemasonry about which he anonymously published a comprehensive work in 1816 (Freemason Year 5816).
