Franz Paul Grua
Franz Paul Grua (also: Francesco da Paula Pietragrua ; born February 1, 1753 in Mannheim ; † July 5, 1833 in Munich ) was a German classical composer and violinist.
Life
Franz Paul Grua was a son of the Italian musician Carlo Luigi Grua , who worked in the Mannheim court orchestra and gave his son his first lessons on keyboard instruments and basso continuo. He studied composition with Kapellmeister Ignaz Holzbauer and violin with Ignaz Fränzl . A study trip took Grua to Bologna in 1777, to the important composer and music theorist Padre Martini and to Tommaso Traetta in Parma. After his return from Italy, the Mannheim and Munich court orchestras were merged and Grua became vice conductor under Andrea Bernasconi . After Bernasconi's death in 1784, Grua was given the post of court conductor, on an equal footing with Georg Joseph Vogler , also known as Abbé Vogler.
Grua composed more than 200 works, mainly church music in his later years, including 31 masses, 3 Requiem, 3 Te Deum, Stabat Mater, 9 Tantum ergo and numerous other works. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart gave a negative judgment after attending a mass; he wrote to his father in November 1780: one can easily compose half a dozen of this genre every day .
At Carnival in 1780, his opera Telemaco (libretto by Zaccaria Seriman 1708–1784) was premiered in the Cuvilliés Theater in Munich .
literature
- Eduard Schmitt: Grua, Franz Paul Joseph. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 7, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1966, ISBN 3-428-00188-5 , p. 173 f. ( Digitized version ).
Web links
- Literature by and about Franz Paul Grua in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Grua, Franz Paul |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Grua, Franz von Paula; Pietragrua, Francesco da Paula |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German composer and violinist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 1, 1753 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Mannheim |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 5, 1833 |
| Place of death | Munich |