Giovanni Agostino Perotti (

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12 April 1769 –

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6 June 1855) was an Italian

composer A composer is a person who writes music. The term is especially used to indicate composers of Western classical music, or those who are composers by occupation. Many composers are, or were, also skilled performers of music. Etymology and Defi ...

, conductor, teacher and writer.

Life

Perotti studied music with his brother Giovanni Domenico and later in

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with

Stanislao Mattei Stanislao Mattei, O.F.M. Conv. (10 February 1750, in Bologna – 17 May 1825, in Bologna), was an Italian Conventual Franciscan friar who was a noted composer, musicologist, and music teacher of his era. Life Mattei was born in Bologna, then pa ...

. In 1795 he was in

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as a keyboard player and in 1798 he moved to

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. He returned in

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in 1801 and settled in

where in 1811 he was appointed maestro in the

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, position that he held till the death in 1855. Perotti was essentially a composer of sacred music.

Compositions

Sacred music

*Abele (orat, P. Metastasio), Bologna, 1794 *La contadina nobile (comic op), Pisa, 1795, lost *Exultate Deo, 4vv, org (Venice, n.d.); *125 sacred works for soloists, chorus and orch, including masses, mass sections, canticles, hymns, Lamentations, motets, ps settings, vespers (in I-Vsm, Vlevi) *other sacred works and fugues (in D-Dlb) *Mass, in collaboration with Pacini (in I-Li) *16 fugues, Bc

Piano

*Sonata, 6 hands *Concerto, 4 hands *6 sonate, 4 hands *Sonata, 4 hands *Theme and Variations, 2, 4 hands *4 sonatas *Variations on Diletta immagine *other pieces

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