Carl Piutti
Carl Hermann Wilhelm Piutti (born April 30, 1846 in Elgersburg ; † June 17, 1902 in Leipzig ; also written Karl Piutti ) was a German composer .
Life
Piutti was the son of the spa doctor or "spa director" of the Elgersburg water spa, Hermann Piutti. He only studied theology for four semesters in Tübingen, then from 1868 on music at the Conservatory in Cologne with Ernst Rudorff and Ferdinand Hiller and since 1869 at the Conservatory in Leipzig with Ernst Friedrich Richter , Robert Papperitz and Carl Reinecke .
There he taught organ and music theory from 1875 until his death. 1880 he was appointed as Thomas organist at the St. Thomas Church appointed. As he wrote, his endeavors as an interpreter and as a composer were "to contribute to the popularization and expansion of organ literature to the best of his ability."
He composed over two hundred chorale preludes for organ, a wedding sonata and two further sonatas for organ, motets , settings of psalms , songs and piano pieces .
Piutti was married.
Works (selection)
- Opus 1 - Six Fantasies in Fugue Form for Organ
- Opus 2 - Eight Preludes for Organ
- Opus 3 - Three interludes for organ
- Opus 4 - Five chorale preludes for organ
- Opus 5 - Organ Hymn in D major
- Opus 9 - "The marriage ceremony" - cycle of four pieces in the form of a sonata for organ
- Opus 10 - Six Little Pieces for Organ
- Opus 11 - Six Pieces for Organ
- Opus 15 - Ten improvisations on well-known chorales for organ
- Opus 16 - Prelude and Fugue “The Whitsun Celebration” for organ
- Opus 19 - Five chorale arrangements for organ
- Opus 20 - Festival Hymn for Organ
- Opus 21 - "In Memoriam" - Pastorale and Fugue on GADE for Organ
- (on the death of Niels Wilhelm Gade in 1890)
- Opus 22 - Organ Sonata in G minor
- Opus 27 - Organ Sonata in E minor
- Opus 30 - Two psalms for choir
- I love that (Psalm 116)
- Shout out to the Lord (Psalm 100)
- Opus 32 - Ten Shorter Organ Pieces
- Opus 33 - Two motets for choir
- Blessed are the dead
- Who wait in the Lord
- Opus 34 - 200 chorale preludes for organ
literature
- Martin Petzoldt : Die Thomasorganisten zu Leipzig , in: Christian Wolff (Hrsg.): Die Orgeln der Thomaskirche zu Leipzig , Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Leipzig 2012, ISBN 3-374-02300-2 , pp. 95–137 (pp. 119–121 ).
Web links
- Sheet music and audio files by Carl Piutti in the International Music Score Library Project
- Works by and about Carl Piutti in the catalog of the German National Library
- Catalog of works on Klasika
Individual evidence
- ^ Anne Marlene Gurgel (Ed.): Foreword . In: Three Interludes for Organ by Carl Piutti , Op. 3. Music publisher J. Butz, St. Augustin 1996
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Piutti, Carl |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Piutti, Karl; Piutti, Karl Hermann Wilhelm |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 30, 1846 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Elgersburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 17, 1902 |
| Place of death | Leipzig |