Giacomo Rust or Rusti (1741 in

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, Italy – 1786 in

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, Spain) was an

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, probably of German ancestry. Not a great deal is known about Rust. Between 1763 and 1777, Rust was active in

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, where his first opera, a

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, ''La contadina in corte'', to a

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by Niccolò Tassi, was performed in 1763. During this period, Rust acquired great fame as opera composer, not only in Italy, but also abroad, which gained him an invitation to be employed in the service of the

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. On 12 June 1777, he was named a choir master at the Salzburg court, a post that he abandoned towards the end of the year. Some time later, Rust returned to Venice to continue his operatic activity. In 1783, he settled down in Barcelona, where he assumed the office of the Maestro de capilla.

Works

The following is the list of the operas composed by Rust.

Notes

References

* Bauman, Thomas and Hintermaier, Ernst (1992), "Rust, Giacomo" in ''

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