Giovanni Agostino Perotti

{{Short description|Italian composer, conductor, teacher, and writer}}

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Giovanni Agostino Perotti (12 April 1769 in Vercelli – 6 June 1855 in Venice) was an Italian composer, conductor, teacher and writer.{{Cite encyclopedia |author=Howard Brofsky|author2=Licia Sirch|date=2001|entry=Perotti, Giovanni Agostino [Giannagostino] |encyclopedia=Grove Music Online|publisher=Oxford University Press |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.21359}}

Life

Perotti studied music with his brother Giovanni Domenico and later in Bologna with Stanislao Mattei. In 1795 he was in Wien as a keyboard player and in 1798 he moved to London.

He returned in Italy in 1801 and settled in Venice where in 1811 he was appointed maestro in the Cappella Marciana, 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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Category:1769 births

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Category:Italian musicologists

Category:Italian conductors (music)

Category:19th-century Italian classical composers

Category:19th-century Italian male musicians

Category:Italian male classical composers

Category:Cappella Marciana composers

Category:Cappella Marciana maestri

Category:Musicians from Venice

Category:People from Vercelli