He was innate on the 22nd of November 1780 around Messkirch in Baden, and died on the 14th of December 1849 around Riga. He owes his fame virtually alof these to one opera, Das Nachtlager von Granada (1834), which saved the stage for half a century withinside spite of the changes in musical taste. It was written in the style of Weber, & is remarkable especially for its flow of echt melody and depth of feeling. A equivalent qualities come detected within Kreutzer's a share-songs for men's voices, which at around one case were highly popular in Germany, & come however listened to by using pleasure. Among these Der Tag des Herr ("The Lord's Day") can be known when as a virtually all first-class.

Kreutzer was the prolific composer, & wrote the total of operas for the theatre at Vienna, which have disappeared from either a stage & are non in all likelihood to exist as revived. He was from either 1812 to 1816 Kapellmeister to the king of Württemberg, and within 1840 became conductor of the opera at Cologne. His girl, Cecilithe Kreutzer, was a singer of occasionally fame.