Pierre-Jean Porro

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Pierre-Jean Porro
Lyra guitar

Pierre-Jean Porro (born December 7, 1750 in Bagnols-en-Forêt , † May 31, 1831 in Montmorency near Paris) was a French guitarist, composer and music publisher of the classical music.

Pierre-Jean Porro (born as “Leek”) received basic musical training in Béziers . In 1783 Porro moved to Paris , where he earned his living as a guitar teacher. He began to publish the weekly “Le Journal de Guitare”, in which he published his own arrangements of works for guitar. Guitar music enjoyed great popularity in the salons of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. In addition to Porro, guitarists such as Filippo Gragnani (1767-1812), Fernando Sor , Mauro Giuliani , Dionisio Aguado and Ferdinando Carulli worked in Paris between 1780 and 1820 .

The good demand prompted him to found a larger publishing house in 1786, which also operated an instrument trade. More than through his numerous own compositions, he was successful through the publication of sacred and secular works by Italian composers such as Francesco Durante , Niccolò Jommelli , Giovanni Battista Pergolesi , but also by composers of his time such as Mozart and Haydn , which he brought closer to the French audience. Porro also composed several works for the lyre guitar .

Works (selection)

vocal

  • Hymn à la liberté (1794)
  • Hymn religieux et patriotique (1794)
  • Panis angelicus , 4 voices and organ (1815)
  • Hymne à Ste Cécile , in collaboration with Henri-Joseph Rigel

Instrumental

  • 2 concerts for guitar and orchestra
  • Duos for 2 guitars (op.18, 28, 32)
  • Duos for guitar and piano (op.33 and 35)
  • Numerous works and arrangements for violin or flute and guitar
  • Trios for guitar or lyre guitar, violin and viola (op. 26 and 38)
  • Numerous "Airs et Romances" for guitar, 1 or 2 violins and keyboard instrument (individual works or in collections)
  • Cent Mélodies anciennes et modern (around 1810)
  • Méthode pour la guitare (including the lyre guitar) (op.31)

Web links

credentials

  1. ↑ Anik DeVries Lesure:  Porro, Pierre-Jean. In: Ludwig Finscher (Hrsg.): The music in past and present . Second edition, personal section, volume 13 (Paladilhe - Ribera). Bärenreiter / Metzler, Kassel et al. 2005, ISBN 3-7618-1133-0 , Sp. 787–788 ( online edition , subscription required for full access).
personal data
SURNAME Porro, Pierre-Jean
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French guitarist, composer and classical music publisher
DATE OF BIRTH December 7, 1750
PLACE OF BIRTH Bagnols-en-Forêt
DATE OF DEATH May 31, 1831
Place of death Montmorency