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1ed., Bologna, 1677); Galeria del sacro Parnasso; Messe piene con stromenti ad libitum, libro secondo (ib., 1670); Il sacro Parnasso delli Salmi festivi, etc., op. 8; Salmi per tutto l’anno ed una Messa, etc. (1669). He published also a treatise: Li primi albori musicali per li principianti della musica figurata, etc. (1679), and Direttorio del canto fermo (1689).—Fétis; Mendel; Riemann.
3PENTENRIEDER, FRANZ XAVER, born at Kaufbeuren, Bavaria, Feb. 6, 1813, died in Munich, July 17, 1867. Dramatic and church composer, pupil of Kalcher and Stunz in Munich, where he entered the choir of the Frauenkirche. He became court Kapellmeister, court organist, choir director at St. Ludwig’s, and Repetitor at the royal theatre. Injuries received from being run over by a carriage resulted in such serious consequences that he passed the last years of his life in an insane asylum. Works: Die Nacht auf Paluzzi, opera, given on all the principal stages of Germany; Das Haus ist zu verkaufen, do., Leipsic, 1846; Cantatas, masses, motets, etc.—Mendel; Riemann.
5PENTHESILÉA, overture for orchestra, in G, to Kleist’s drama of the same title, by Goldmark, op. 31, first performed in Vienna, Dec. 26, 1880. Published by Schott (Mainz, London, and Brussels, 1881); by Leede (Leipsic). Arranged for the piano-forte for four hands.—Mus. Wochenblatt (1881), 92.
7PEPUSCH, JOHANN CHRISTOPH, born in Berlin in 1667, died in London, July 20, 1752. Dramatic composer, pupil at Stettin of Gottlieb Klingenberg, and of Grosse, a Saxon organist. He was a musician at the Prussian court in 1681–97, was in Holland in 1698, and about 1700 went to London, where he became a member of the orchestra at Drury Lane. In 1707 he adapted the music of Thomyris, Queen of Scythia, and of other operas, adding recitatives and songs. He devoted much time to the study of ancient music, and in 1710 aided in establishing the Academy of Ancient Music. In 1712 he became organist and composer to the Duke of Chandos at Cannons, where he preceded Handel; in 1713 he took the degree of Mus. Doc. at Oxford, and soon after became music director of Lincoln’s Inn Theatre.
9In 1724 he joined Dr. Berkeley in his scheme of a college in the Bermudas, but was shipwrecked and returned to England. Soon afterwards he married Marguerite de l’Épine the singer, and in 1731 became organist of the Charter House, a position he held until his death. His wife, who brought him a fortune of £10,000, died in 1746. Pepusch, though pedantic, was skilled in musical science, and was one of the chief authorities on music in England previous to Handel. He is best known by his scoring and arrangement of the Beggar’s Opera. Works: Venus and Adonis, masque, 1715; Apollo and Daphne, and The Death of Dido, masques, 1716; The Union of the Three Sister Arts, masque for St. Cecilia’s Day, 1723; The Beggar’s Opera, 1727; Polly, opera, 1729; The Wedding, ballad opera, 1734; Ode to the Memory of the Duke of Devonshire, 1707; Ode for the Princess of Wales’s Birthday, 1715–16; 6 English cantatas (London, 1712); Sonatas and concertos for strings and wind instruments; Anthems and motets. He published also a Short Treatise on Harmony (London, 1730; 2d ed., 1731); and edited Corelli’s Sonatas in score.—Grove; Fétis; Burney, Hist., iv. 634; Mendel.
11PERABO, (JOHANN) ERNST, born in Wiesbaden, Germany, Nov. 14, 1845, still living, 1890. Pianist, the youngest of ten children, all of whom followed the profession of music; began when five years old to study under his father. In 1852 he went to
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