Georg Reutter the Younger

Georg Reutter the Younger, brush drawing in gray by A. Ecker

(Johann Adam Joseph Karl) Georg Reutter , called the Younger (baptized on April 6, 1708 in Vienna ; † March 11, 1772 ibid) was an Austrian composer.

Life

Reutter received lessons from his father Georg Reutter the Elder , who was cathedral and court organist in Vienna and assisted him in these functions. Antonio Caldara later became his teacher. After his apprenticeship, Reutter initially applied to be court organist in vain. After a trip to Italy in 1730, which took him to Venice and Rome, he was finally appointed court composer in Vienna on March 1, 1731. In 1738 Reutter succeeded his father as the first conductor at St. Stephen's Cathedral . In this office he was also responsible for the cathedral choir boys, among whom at that time there was Joseph Haydn , whom Reutter himself had brought to Vienna from Hainburg in 1740.

Reutter was in 1740 by Emperor Karl VI. raised to the nobility (Edler von Reutter) and achieved a leading position in Viennese musical life in the following years. Maria Theresa gave him the direction of all table, chamber and church music in 1751, and in 1769 Reutter was officially first court conductor.

His son was Marian Reutter , abbot of Heiligenkreuz Abbey.

Works

Reutter wrote numerous masses (around 80), oratorios and music-dramatic works ( fixed teatrale, dramme per musica , fixed di camera, dialoghi, serenate ) as well as instrumental music. Overall, his work should include 677 numbers.

Unless otherwise stated, the world premieres took place in Vienna.

Operas

Archidamia, festa teatrale; Libretto: Giovanni Claudio Pasquini ; November 22, 1727
La forza dell'amicizia, dramma per musica (with Antonio Caldara ); Libretto: Pasquini; Graz, August 17, 1728
La magnanimità di Alessandro; Libretto: Pasquini; October 1, 1729
Alcide trasformato in dio, dramma per musica; 1729
Plotina, festa teatrale; Libretto: Pasquini; November 19, 1730
La pazienza di Socrate con due moglie, scherzo drammatico (together with Antonio Caldara); Libretto: N. Minato; Court, Teatrino, January 17, 1731
La generosità di Artaserse con Temistocle (1st act), dramma per musica; Libretto: Pasquini; October 1, 1731
Il Tempo e la Verità; Libretto: Pasquini; October 15, 1731
Pastoral a 2 voci; Libretto: Pasquini, August 30, 1732
Alessandro il Grande, festa di musica; Libretto: Pasquini; October 1, 1732
Zenobia, festa teatrale; Libretto: Pasquini; Neu-Wartenburg, October 28, 1732
Ciro in Armenia, festa teatrale; Libretto: Pasquini; October 1, 1733
La gratitudine di Mitridate; Libretto: Pasquini; October 1, 1734
Dafne, festa teatrale; Libretto: Pasquini; November 19, 1734
Il palladio conservato , azione teatrale; Libretto: Pietro Metastasio ; October 1, 1735
Il sacrificio in Aulide, festa teatrale; Libretto: Pietro Pariati ; November 19, 1735
Diana vendicata, festa teatrale; Libretto: Pasquini; 19/21. November 1736
Statira; Libretto: Apostolo Zeno and Pariati; 1736
Il Parnaso accusato e difeso , festa teatrale; Libretto: Metastasio; August 28, 1738
L'alloro illustrato, festa teatrale; Libretto: Pasquini; November 19, 1738
L'eroina d'Argo; Libretto: Pasquini; October 15, 1739
L'amor prigioniero , dialogo; Libretto: Metastasio; Fall 1741
La rispettosa tenerezza; 1750
Il tributo di Rispetto e d'Amore; 1754
La gara, componimento drammatico; Libretto: Metastasio; May 13, 1755
Il sogno, componimento drammatico; Libretto: Metastasio; 1756
Le grazie vendicate ; 1758

Serenates

Dialogo tra Minerva ed Apollo; Libretto: C. Pasquini; October 25, 1728
Dialogo tra l'Inclinazione ed il Bene; Libretto: Pasquini; June 26, 1731
Dialogo tra Aurora ed il Sole, festa di camera; 1731
Pastoral to two voices; Neu-Wartenburg, August 30, 1732
La speranza assicurata; Libretto: Pasquini; May 13, 1736
Complimento; Libretto: Metastasio; 1748
Augurio di Felicità; Libretto: Metastasio; Schönbrunn, 1749
La virtuosa emulazione; Libretto: Metastasio; 1751
Primo omaggio di canto; Libretto: Metastasio; 1753
Complimento; Libretto: Metastasio; 1754
La corona; Libretto: Metastasio; 1754
Complimento; Libretto: Metastasio; 1759
Complimento; Libretto: Metastasio; 1760
Water, fire, air and earth; 1730
David; 1735
Engagement, blessing, joy, honor; 1738
The three graces
Judith
The true homage

Oratorios

The Entombment of Christ (Oratorium Germanicum); 1726
La morte d'Abele; Libretto: Leopoldo de Villati ; March 13, 1727
Elijah; Libretto: Leopoldo de Villati; February 24, 1728
Bersabea, ovvero Il pentimento di David; Libretto: Catena; March 12, 1729
Il martirio di S Giovanni Nepomuceno; Libretto: C. Pasquini; June 17, 1731
La divina provvidenza in Ishmael; Libretto: Antonio Maria Lucchini ; March 6, 1732
La Betulia liberata ; Libretto: Metastasio; April 8, 1734
Gioas re di Giuda ; Libretto: Metastasio; 1735
La Maria lebbrosa (fragment); 1739

Other spiritual works

Missa Santa Caroli; 1734; previously attributed to Mozart
80 other trade fairs
6 Requiem
7 Italian cantatas
17 graduate degrees
31 offers
126 motets
151 Psalms and Canticles
63 hymns and sequences
48 antiphons
7 responsories
20 litanies

Instrumental works

6 symphonies and partitas for strings and wind instruments, including Servizio di tavola, 1757
5 symphonies for strings
2 harpsichord concerts
2 clarino concerts
Wind quintet
14 suites for harpsichord
15 other harpsichord works

literature

Constantin von Wurzbach : Reutter, Johann Georg von . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 25th part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1873, pp. 365–367 ( digitized version ).
Constantin von Wurzbach : Reutter, Johann Georg von, coat of arms . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 25th part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1873, p. 367 ( digitized version ).
Ludwig Stollbrock: Life and work of the kk court conductor Johann Georg Reutter junior. In: Quarterly journal for musicology. Volume VIII, 1892.
The music in the past and present .
Propylaea world of music. Frankfurt 1989.

Web links

Commons : Goerg Reutter the Younger - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Sheet music and audio files by Georg Reutter the Younger in the International Music Score Library Project
Media from and about Georg Reutter the Younger in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

^ David Wyn Jones: Reutter, Georg (ii) - Works. In: Grove Music Online (English; subscription required).
^ Library dataset on La morte d'Abele by Pietro Metastasio at librettodopera.it , accessed on April 4, 2018.

personal data
SURNAME	Reutter, Georg the Younger
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Reutter, Georg; Reutter, Johann Adam Joseph Karl Georg (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian composer
DATE OF BIRTH	baptized April 6, 1708
PLACE OF BIRTH	Vienna
DATE OF DEATH	March 11, 1772
Place of death	Vienna

[1] David Wyn Jones: Reutter, Georg (ii) - Works. In: Grove Music Online (English; subscription required).

[2] Library dataset on La morte d'Abele by Pietro Metastasio at librettodopera.it , accessed on April 4, 2018.