Marco Giuseppe Peranda (

Macerata Macerata () is a city and ''comune'' in central Italy, the county seat of the province of Macerata in the Marche region. It has a population of about 41,564. History The historical city centre is on a hill between the Chienti and Potenza ri ...

, c. 1625 – 12 January 1675 in

Dresden Dresden (, ; Upper Saxon: ''Dräsdn''; wen, label=Upper Sorbian, Drježdźany) is the capital city of the German state of Saxony and its second most populous city, after Leipzig. It is the 12th most populous city of Germany, the fourth larg ...

) was an Italian musician and composer active in Germany.

Life

He was one of the most notable Italian musicians in Germany during the early Baroque alongside

Vincenzo Albrici Vincenzo Albrici (26 June 1631 in Rome - 7 September 1687 in Prague) was an Italian composer, brother of Bartolomeo and nephew of Fabio and Alessandro Costantini. Albrici was born as the son of singer who settled from Marche in Rome. In 1641 he ...

Carlo Pallavicino Carlo Pallavicino (Pallavicini; c. 1630 – 29 January 1688) was an Italian composer. Pallavicino was born at Salò. From 1666 to 1673, he worked at the Dresden court; from 1674 to 1685, at the ''Ospedale degli Incurabili'' (a conservatory where ...

and Giovanni Andrea Bontempi in Dresden. These four Italian ''Kapellmeisters'' were well rewarded – they earned yearly salaries of 1,200 ''Reichstalers'' while

Heinrich Schütz Heinrich Schütz (; 6 November 1672) was a German early Baroque composer and organist, generally regarded as the most important German composer before Johann Sebastian Bach, as well as one of the most important composers of the 17th century. He ...

, at this point semi-retired, earned 800 Reichstalers a year.Gina Spagnoli ''Letters and documents of Heinrich Schütz, 1656–1672'' 1990 "In this list, the four Italian Kapellmeisters, Bontempi, Albrici, Peranda, and Pallavicino, are shown to have earned yearly salaries of 1200 Reichstalers while Schutz, by then semiretired, earned 800 Reichstalers. Vice-Kapellmeister Giovanni de ... A contemporary, Agostino Rossi, records him as being a native of Macerata but his musical style shows an education in Rome. From 1651 Perenda was an

alto The musical term alto, meaning "high" in Italian (Latin: ''altus''), historically refers to the contrapuntal part higher than the tenor and its associated vocal range. In 4-part voice leading alto is the second-highest part, sung in choruses by ...

singer in the chapel of Johann Georg II of Saxony as he combined his own chapel choir with that of his father's. In 1661 Peranda became ''Vizekapellmeister'' and in 1663 ''Kapellmeister,'' as successor of Albrici. His opera ''Dafne'' (composed in collaboration) was performed to open the

Opernhaus am Taschenberg The (Opera house at the Taschenberg) was a theatre in Dresden, Saxony, Germany, built from 1664 to 1667 by Wolf Caspar von Klengel. It was the first opera house of the capital of Saxony, Residenz of the Elector of Saxony. Seating up to 2000 people ...

in Dresden. In 1670 he made a journey to Italy, from which two masses and a motet remain in the

Kroměříž Kroměříž (; german: Kremsier) is a town in the Zlín Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 28,000 inhabitants. It is known for the Kroměříž Castle with castle gardens, which are a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The town centre with the c ...

residence. In 1672 he was promoted again, to ''Hofkapellmeister,'' possibly since

Christoph Bernhard Christoph Bernhard (1 January 1628 – 14 November 1692) was born in Kolberg, Pomerania, and died in Dresden. He was a German Baroque composer and musician. He studied with former Sweelinck-pupil Paul Siefert in Danzig (now Gdańsk) and in War ...

had taken a better offer in Hamburg. In 1675 Peranda died, and since unlike some Italian musicians he had never converted to Lutheranism, was buried in Marienstern Abbey in Dresden.

Works

Only an estimated third of his works survive: * 1668: Markus-Passion (''Historia des Leidens und Sterbens unseres Herren Jesu Christi'') * 1668: Weihnachtshistorie (lost) * 1671: Dafne (Opera with Giovanni Andrea Bontempi) * 1673: Jupiter und Jo (lost – a collaboration with Bontempi or Constantin Christian Dedekind) * 1675: Il sacrificio di Jefte (i.e. Jephtha, lost, libretto survives)

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Peranda als Kollege Heinrich Schuetz
{{DEFAULTSORT:Peranda, Marco Giuseppe Italian Baroque composers Italian male classical composers 1620s births 1675 deaths 17th-century Italian composers 17th-century male musicians