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Hermann Raupach

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Hermann Friedrich Raupach (December 21, 1728, Stralsund - December 12, 1778, St Petersburg) was a German composer.

Biography

Son and pupil of Christoph Raupach (1686-1744), a composer and organist in Stralsund, he was a harpsichordist, the assistant of Vincenzo Manfredini, at the Russian Imperial Court Ochestra in St Petersburg since 1755. In 1758 he was appointed a Kapellmeister and court composer. Some of his operas were performed in Russian. His Alcesta (Альцеста, 1758) is regarded as "the second Russian opera" (after Araja’s Tsefal i Prokris). The role of Admet at the premiere of this opera was sang by 13-years-old Dmitri Bortnyansky nicknamed "Orpheus of the Neva river".

In 1762 left St Petersburg for Hamburg and then to Paris, where he met Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and improvised with him on harpsichord in 4 hands. Mozart arranged some movements from his sonatas for piano and string orchestra. The Sonata for Piano and Violin in A major, that was listed as K61, [1] first appeared under Mozart's name in the Breitkopf & Härtel "OEuvres" in1804. It had been in Baron Taddaus von Dürnitz collection, and mistakenly thought to be by Mozart. In 1912 Theodor de Wyzewa and Georges de St.Foix discovered that the real composer was Hermann Raupach. They believed the young Mozart copied this Sonata to use for an arrangement into a Piano Concerto, as he had used works of Raupach in K37, K39 and K41. [2]

Later Raupach returned to St Petersburg, where he became the instructor of composition and singing in 1768-1778 at the Academy of Fine Arts. The composers Dmitri Bortnyansky and Yevstigney Fomin were among his pupils.

Works

Operas

Others

Notes

  1. ^ The number was changed into K. Anh 290a and then later into K. Anh C.23.07. See the link
  2. ^ Mozart's Piano Concertos Nos. 1, 2 and 4.

Music and sound samples

W.-A. Mozart’s adaptation of Andantino from the Sonata by Hermann Raupach in his Piano Concerto No.4, in G, the second movement, K.41, dated by Leopold Mozart July 1767, Salzburg.

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