Hermann Friedrich Raupach

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Hermann Friedrich Raupach (born December 21, 1728 in Stralsund , † December 22, 1778 in Saint Petersburg ) was a German composer .

Life

Hermann Friedrich Raupach was a son of the Stralsund organist Christoph Raupach , from whom he received his first music lessons. His older brother Gerhard Christoph Raupach (1708–1759) became organist in Stralsund's Marienkirche. His uncle Bernhard Raupach was a theologian in Rostock.

Raupach was deputy harpsichordist in the court orchestra of the Italian Society in Saint Petersburg from 1755 and was appointed conductor and court composer there in 1758. During this time he composed two operas and a ballet with Josef Starzer .

After he was in 1762 by Tsar Peter III. with most of Italian society dismissed, he left St. Petersburg and went to Paris via Hamburg . There he settled down as a music teacher. He composed several sonatas for piano and violin. In 1766 he met Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart here , who made music with him.

In 1768 he followed another call to Saint Petersburg, where he became second Kapellmeister in 1777 and took over the post of director of the musical department at the Academy of Fine Arts. He taught composition at the academy. In addition to other ballets, he composed a successful comic opera . His works were repeatedly performed after his death.

Among his students was the Russian composer Evstignei Ipatowitsch Fomin .

Works

  • Alceste. Opera, 1758.
  • Siroe . Opera, libretto: Pietro Metastasio , 1760.
  • The Refuge of Virtue. Ballet.
  • 6 sonatas for piano and violin op.1.1762.
  • 4 sonatas for piano and violin op.2.1765.
  • Armide and Renaud. Ballet.
  • Le Desepoir d'Armide. Ballet.
  • Semele et Jupiter. Ballet.
  • Dobryje soldaty. Comic opera, libretto: Michail Matwejewitsch Cheraskow

literature

  • Raupach, Hermann Friedrich. In: Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania? A dictionary of persons. Edition Temmen, Bremen 1995, ISBN 3-86108-282-9 , pp. 345-346.
  • Denis Lomtev. German music theater in Russia . Lage-Hörste: Burau, 2003. pp. 54–64, 123–128.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Rudolph Angermüller, Johanna Senigl: Florilegium Pratense: Mozart, his time, his posterity. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2005, ISBN 3-8260-3258-6 , p. 68 ( Google books ).
personal data
SURNAME Raupach, Hermann Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer
DATE OF BIRTH December 21, 1728
PLACE OF BIRTH Stralsund
DATE OF DEATH December 1778
Place of death St. Petersburg