Carlo Luigi Grua

Carlo Luigi Grua (also Pietragrua * around 1700 in Milan ; † April 11, 1773 in Mannheim ) was an Italian composer and conductor of the early classical period.

Life

Carlo Grua came from an Italian family of musicians and was the son of the Mannheim court organist Vincenzo Paolo Pietragrua (around 1657–1732 Mannheim), a brother of Carlo Luigi Pietro Grua . From 1733 to 1753 he was Kapellmeister of Duke Karl III. Philipp von der Pfalz at the Mannheimer Hof, responsible for all areas of court music. When Ignaz Holzbauer became Kapellmeister in 1753 , Grua was only responsible for the church music of the court. Its last surviving mass was made in 1766.

His son Franz Paul Grua (1753–1833) was first a violinist in the Mannheim orchestra and later at the Munich court, where he rose to the position of court conductor.

Works (selection)

His work includes church music and oratorios as well as operas.

Operas

• Meride (1742), libretto GC Pasquini.
• La clemenza di Tito (1748), libretto Pietro Metastasio .

Oratorios

• La conversione di. S. Ignazio (1740), text by L. Santorini
• Bersabea, owero il pentimento di David (1741)
• Jaele (1741), text by L. Santorini
• Il figliuol prodigo (1742, rev. 1749), text by GC Pasquini
• La missione sacerdotale (1746), text by L. Santorini
• S. Elena al Calvario (1750), text by Metastasio
• La passione di Giesu Christo nostro Signore (1754), text by Metastasio

literature

• Moritz Fürstenau:  Grua, Karl Ludwig Peter . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 9, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1879, p. 785. (also mentioned there)
• Eduard Schmitt:  Grua, Carlo Luigi Pietro. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 7, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1966, ISBN 3-428-00188-5 , p. 173 ( digitized version ).

Web links

Commons : Carlo Luigi Grua  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ^ Carlo Luigi Pietro Grua in the Bavarian Musicians' Lexicon Online (BMLO)