Marco Berra

Pietro Marco Giulio Berra (born October 24, 1784 in Campagna , † May 18, 1853 in Prague ) was an Italian music publisher operating in Prague .

Life

Berra first worked at Artaria , a Viennese music publisher , before founding his own publishing house in Prague in 1811. In addition to sheet music printing, he also sold musical instruments, lithographs and oil paintings here, and since 1835 he has been operating sheet music rentals as far as Italy, France, England, Germany and Russia.

His publisher's list of publications includes 1380 numbered titles, with a focus on songs and works for guitar and piano. He has published compositions by internationally famous composers such as Gioachino Rossini , Johann Sebastian Bach , Gaetano Donizetti , Daniel-François-Esprit Auber , Carl Maria von Weber , Vincenzo Bellini , Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Ludwig van Beethoven , but also published works by numerous Czech composers such as Václav Jan Křtitel Tomášek , Jan Bedřich Kittl , František Max Kníže , Josef Labický , František Matěj Hilmar , Jan Václav Kalivoda , Antonín Emil Tittl , František Škroup , Jan August Vitásek , Robert Führer , Jan Pavel Martinovský and Johann Joseph Rössler .

Berra published collections of contemporary dance music in the volumes Prague Favorite Gallops and Prague Favorite Polkas , and a collection of organ works appeared in the Museum for Organ Players series . In 1855 he published some of Bedřich Smetana's earliest compositions . Since his son-in-law Jan Hoffmann had founded a competing publishing house in Prague in 1841, Berra decided that his company should be sold after his death. It was bought by the Christoph & Kuhé publishing house and after its dissolution in the 1880s it was merged with the Jaromír Hoffmanns publishing house .

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personal data
SURNAME	Berra, Marco
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Berra, Pietro Marco Giulio
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Italian music publisher
DATE OF BIRTH	October 24, 1784
PLACE OF BIRTH	Campagna (Campania)
DATE OF DEATH	May 18, 1853
Place of death	Prague