Peter Ritter
Johann Peter Ritter (2 July 1763 - 1 August 1846) was a German composer, conductor, chorus master, and cellist born and died in Mannheim, Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg, Germany). He is best known in the United States for "Sun of My Soul" and "Holy God, We Praise Thy Name." Peter Ritter was son of the oboist Georg Wilhelm Ritter and the nephew of the bassoonist Georg Wenzel Ritter. He was a student of Abbé Vogler, who also taught Giacomo Meyerbeer and Carl Maria von Weber.
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Peter Ritter
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- Peter Ritter was born on 2 July 1763. · Mannheim.
- Died
- Peter Ritter died on 1 August 1846. · Mannheim.
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- Grand Duchy of Baden.
- Occupation
- composer, cellist, conductor, chapelmaster and concertmaster.
- Languages
- German.
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Johann Peter Ritter (2 July 1763 - 1 August 1846) was a German composer, conductor, chorus master, and cellist born and died in Mannheim, Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg, Germany). He is best known in the United States for "Sun of My Soul" and "Holy God, We Praise Thy Name." Peter Ritter was son of the oboist Georg Wilhelm Ritter and the nephew of the bassoonist Georg Wenzel Ritter. He was a student of Abbé Vogler, who also taught Giacomo Meyerbeer and Carl Maria von Weber.
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He played cello in the orchestra of the Mannheim National Theatre beginning in 1786 and became one of its concertmasters in 1801. From 1803 to 1823 he worked as its conductor. His successor was the Antonio Salieri student, Michael Frey. In addition to more than 20 stage works, including Die lustige Weiber, one of the earliest known operas after William Shakespeare and one of ten operatic adaptations of The Merry Wives of Windsor. Ritter also composed church music and various instrumental works. His brother, Heinrich Ludwig Ritter, became known as a violinist, his, son Karl August Ritter, was a singer.
• Der Eremit auf Formentera (Libretto: August von Kotzebue), komische Oper, 1788 • Der Sklavenhändler (Libretto: Christian Friedrich Schwan), Singspiel, 1790 • Die Weihe (Libretto: Georg Christian Römer), musikalisches Schauspiel, 1792 • Die lustigen Weiber (Libretto: Georg Christian Römer after Shakespeare), Singspiel, 1794 • Dilara oder Die schwarze Zauberinsel (Libretto: Wolfgang Heribert von Dalberg after Carlo Gozzi), Singspiel, 1798 • Das Fest in Apollons Haine (Libretto: Georg Christian Römer), Festspiel zu Ehren des schwedischen Königspaares, 1803 • Das neue Jahr (Neujahr) in Famagusta (after Clemens Brentano, Die lustigen Musikanten), Singspiel, 1804 • Das Fest am Rheine (Libretto: Siegfried August Mahlmann), 1806 • Salomon's Urtheil (Libretto: Georg Christian Römer), Oper, 1808 • Das Fest im Olymp, musikalischer Prolog zum Namenstag der Großherzogin Stephanie von Baden, 1808 • Der Zitherschläger (Libretto: Heinrich Seidel), Singspiel, 1810 • Das Tal von Barzelonetta oder Die beiden Eremiten, Singspiel, 1811 • Feodore (Libretto: August von Kotzebue), Singspiel, 1811 • Alexander in Indien (Die Macedonier am Indus) (Libretto: Georg Christian Römer after Pietro Metastasio), Oper, 1811 • Die Jubelfeier (Libretto: Karl Ludwig Kaibel), musikalisches Drama, 1816 • Leonore oder Das Geistergericht (after Gottfried August Bürger), Ballade, 1815 • Der Schutzgeist (Libretto: August von Kotzebue), dramatische Legende, 1816 • Alfred (Libretto: August von Kotzebue), Oper, 1820 • Der Mandarin oder Die gefoppten Chinesen (Libretto von Heinrich Ritter), komisches Singspiel, 1821 • Hoang-Puff oder Das dreifache Horoskop (Libretto: Hermann Herzenskron), Singspiel, 1822 • Bianca (Libretto: Albert Ludwig Grimm), Oper, 1825 • Der Talisman, Singspiel, 1825 • Das Grubenlicht (Libretto: Louise Beck), romantische Oper, 1833
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1763
Peter Ritter was born on 2 July 1763.
1846
Peter Ritter died on 1 August 1846.
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- 1.Bertil H. Van Boer. Historical Dictionary of Music of the Classical Period. The Scarecrow Press. 2012.
- 2.Ritter, Peter. Weber Gesamtausgabe.
- 3.Ludwig-Maximilians Universität München. Ritter, Johann Peter. Bayerisches Musiker-Lexikon Online (BMLO).
- 4.Valerie Walden. One Hundred Years of Violoncello: A History of Technique and Performance Practice, 1740-1840. Cambridge University Press. 1998.
- 5.Ritter, (Johann) Peter. Operone.de.
- 6.Joachim. Peter Ritter (1763-1846). Musique classique forum. 22 janvier 2007.
- 7.Hans Oskar Koch, notice du CD Mannheimer Schule Vol.4, Kurpfälzisches Kammerorchester, CD Arte Nova 74321 37298 2, 1996.
- 8.Don Michael Randel, The Harvard Concise Dictionary of Music and Musicians, Harvard University Press, 1999.
- 9.Musikalische akademie des Nationaltheater-Orchesters Mannheim. musikalische-akademie.de.
- 10.Gisela Blees. Das Cello-Konzert um 1800. G. Bosse. 1973.
- 11.François-Joseph Fétis. Biographie universelle des musiciens et bibliographie générale de la musique, tome septième. Meline, Cans et compagnie. 1861.
- 12.John Denison Champlin Jr, William Foster Apthorp. Cyclopedia of Music and Musicians, Volume III. Charles Scribner's Sons. 1843.
- 13.Stephan Petrich, notice du CD Musik der Münchener Hofkapelle - Music of the Munich Court Orchestra, Hofkapelle München, dir. Christoph Hammer, Capriccio AE 10 861, 2000
- 14.Eugene K. Wolf. The Classical Era: Volume 5: From the 1740s to the end of the 18th Century - Chapter VIII: The Mannheim Court. MacMillan Press. 1989.
- 15.Christian Schruff, notice du CD Ignaz Holzbauer - Five Symphonies, L'Orfeo Barockorchester, dir. Michi Gaigg, cpo 999 585-2, 1999
- 16.Hans Oskar Koch, notice du CD Mannheimer Schule Vol.3, Kurpfälzisches Kammerorchester, CD Arte Nova 74321 37297 2, 1996.
- 17.David Mason Greene. Greene's Biographical Encyclopedia of Composers. The Reproducing Piano Roll Foundation. 2007.
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Peter Ritter is recorded with the occupation concertmaster. Recorded as composer, cellist, conductor, chapelmaster and concertmaster.
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