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- Rudolf Schnitzler: "Perroni [Peroni], Giovanni", Grove Music Online ed. L. Macy (Accessed September 15, 2019), (subscription access) Archived 2008-05-16 at the Wayback Machine
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Giovanni Perroni (1688, Oleggio, Novara, - March 10, 1748, Vienna) was an Italian cellist and composer. His known works include eight oratorios, three operas, a song cycle, and a cello concerto. His Cello Concerto in D minor premiered in Vienna in 1712 and consists of three movements: Grave - Allegro - Grave - Allegro, Grave (solo and continuo), and Grave - Allegro. The work remains part of the cello concert repertoire.
Perroni served as a cellist and composer in the court of Francesco Farnese, Duke of Parma from 1704-1714. He served as maestro di cappella of the Santa Maria delle Grazie in Milan, and as a cellist in the Court of Milan from 1718-1720. In 1721 Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor appointed him as cellist in the royal court of Vienna, and he remained in that post until his death twenty-seven years later. In 1726 he married the opera singer Anna d’Ambreville whose sister, Rosa Borosini, was married to tenor Francesco Borosini.
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Antonio Salieri was an Italian classical composer, conductor, and teacher. He was born in Legnago, south of Verona, in the Republic of Venice, and spent his adult life and career as a subject of the Habsburg monarchy.
Franz Ignaz Danzi was a German cellist, composer and conductor, the son of the Italian cellist Innocenz Danzi (1730–1798) and brother of the noted singer Franzeska Danzi. Danzi lived at a significant time in the history of European music. His career, spanning the transition from the late Classical to the early Romantic styles, coincided with the origin of much of the music that lives in our concert halls and is familiar to contemporary classical-music audiences. As a young man he knew Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, whom he revered; he was a contemporary of Ludwig van Beethoven, about whom he — like many of his generation — had strong but mixed feelings; and he was a mentor for the young Carl Maria von Weber, whose music he respected and promoted.
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Luca Antonio Predieri was an Italian composer and violinist. A member of a prominent family of musicians, Predieri was born in Bologna and was active there from 1704. In 1737 he moved to Vienna, eventually becoming Kapellmeister to the imperial Habsburg court in 1741, a post he held for ten years. In 1765 he returned to his native city where he died two years later at the age of 78. A prolific opera composer, he was also known for his sacred music and oratorios. Although his operas were largely forgotten by the end of his own lifetime and most of their scores lost, individual arias as well some of his sacred music are still performed and recorded.
Rosa Borosini [née d'Ambreville] was an Italian soprano and the wife of tenor Francesco Borosini. In 1716 she created the role of Getilde in the world premiere of Antonio Vivaldi's La costanza trionfante degl'amori e de gl'odii.
Rudolf Hindemith, since 1951 officially Paul Quest, pseudonym Hans Lofer was a German cellist, composer and conductor. He was solo cellist of the Vienna State Opera, and played chamber music in the Amar Quartet. He stood often in the shadow of his famous brother Paul but was rediscovered in recent years as a composer of an opera, a piano concerto, chamber music and piano pieces.
