Johann christoph pepusch biography of alberta
Johann christoph pepusch biography of alberta smith.
Dictionary of National Biography, /Pepusch, John Christopher
&#;PEPUSCH, JOHN CHRISTOPHER (–), professor of music and composer, the son of a German protestant clergyman, was born at Berlin in , and studied the organ under Grosse, and musical theory under Klingenberg.
Johann christoph pepusch biography of alberta
At the age of fourteen he played at court, accompanying a singer, and was soon afterwards appointed the teacher of Prince Frederick William. That post he filled for six years, pursuing his own studies in the meanwhile. In Pepusch was in Holland, where his earlier works were published by Etienne Roger; but at the end of the following year he came to England, tempted probably by the success of Buononcini (Gerber), though a story is told of an act of kingly severity at Berlin, which Hawkins supposed to have been the cause of the musician's anxiety to quit the Prussian service.
In London Pepusch was at first employed as viola-player in the Drury Lane orchestra (Mendel); in he was given the conductor's place at the ha