Giovanni Agostino Perotti ( Vercelli 12 April 1769 – Venice 6 June 1855) was an Italian composer, conductor, teacher and writer.
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
External links
1769 births
1855 deaths
Italian musicologists
Italian conductors (music) 19th-century classical composers 19th-century Italian composers 19th-century Italian male musicians Italian classical composers Italian male classical composers Cappella Marciana composers Cappella Marciana maestri Musicians from Venice People from Vercelli