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German composer (1667–1752)
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2023-11-10 08:21:00
[…] variation form whilst Győri proves herself to be terrific flautist.Johan Helmich Roman is often known as the 'Father of Swedish music', starting his career in 1711 as a violinist and oboist at the Royal Chapel, where he studied and played alongside Johann Jacob Bach, JS Bach's brother and a skilful oboist. In 1716 Roman came to London to study, being employed as a violinist at the King's Theatre and evidently having lessons from Handel and Pepusch. Roman finally, and reluctantly, left London in 1721 to serve the newly crowned Swedish royal couple of King Frederick I and Roman’s main patron Queen Ulrica Eleonora, to whom he dedicated the publication of twelve sonatas for flute and basso continuo in 1727.Flauguissimo perform three of the flute sonatas, nos. 4, 8 and 10, on flute, theorbo and gamba. Alongside these are arias from two cantatas, both of which feature the flute strongly. Cantata […]
2021-11-30 09:34:20
A snapshot of London musical life in 17th and 18th centuries from Ensemble Hesperi at Temple Church
[…] Ensemble Hesperi explored in their concert in Temple Church on Monday 29 November 2021 for Temple Music. The ensemble, Mary-Jannet Leith (recorders), Magdalena Loth-Hill (baroque violin), Florence Petit (baroque cello), Thomas Allery (harpsichord), has become known for its exploration of Scottish 17th and 18th century music, and their Temple Church programme included some of James Oswald's music from their recent disc Full of the Highland Humours [see my review] alongside music by Purcell, Handel, Farinel, Pepusch, Finger, Blow and Matteis plus tunes from Playford's A Collection of Original Scotch Tunes and the English Dancing Master. Thomas Playford's shop was the first music shop as we know it, and it was home to his music business. Samuel Pepys would queue up at the shop to buy the latest music by Henry Purcell, and Playford's son Henry would collaborate with Purcell's widow in printing more of the composer's music. […]
2020-07-20 06:55:45
The Invention of English Opera: part two, the brief flowering of English opera, the rise of Italian opera and the development of ballad opera
[…] his native Italian. As we have seen Margherita de L'Epine sang in Greber's opera which opened the Queen's Theatre's first season, and unlike Greber she stayed in England. And she would take part in a number of operas, right through to singing in Handel's Teseo in 1713. Many of these early operas were pasticcios, confections assembled locally from pre-existing music, and often the arranging was done by Dr Johann Pepusch. Pepusch (1667-1752) was a German composer who settled in England in 1700. For twenty years he would direct the musical establishment of the Duke of Chandos at his house, Canons, in North-West London. Pepusch and de L'Epine had a long-standing professional relationship and a personal one too, they married in around 1718. When George Frideric Handel was invited to London in 1710, his opera Rinaldo […]
2017-11-12 07:15:48
Ciara Hendrick, Philippa Hyde, Richard Edgar-Wilson, the Harmonious Society of Tickle-Fiddle Gentleman/ Rawson (Ramée)Colley Cibber, the waspish actor-manager at Drury Lane, had a hearty dislike of vogueish Italian opera, and in 1715 set out with his music director, Johann Christoph Pepusch, to “give the town a little good music in a language they understand”. Between them they devised an elaborate masque, Venus and Adonis, recreated here by Robert Rawson with some fine soloists and the fleet-footed
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