j        HOME INSTRUMENTS COMPOSERS MUSIC NEWS   COMPOSERS Albinoni Bach Biber Blow Buxtehude Caccini Carissimi Chambonnières Charpentier Corelli Couperin Frescobaldi Froberger Geminiani Gluck Handel Lully Metastasio Monteverdi Pachelbel Pepusch Pergolesi Peri Purcell Rameau Sammartini Scarlatti Scheidt Schein Schütz Stradella Tartini Telemann Torelli Vivaldi Zachau JOHANN CHRISTOPH PEPUSCH (1667 - 1752) German-born composer, conductor, and organist. Mainly self-taught expert in theory and history. Settled in London 1704. Played viola and harpsichord in Drury Lane orchestra. One of founders of the Academy of Ancient Music. Organist and composer to Duke of Chandos, 1715-1731. From 1715 composed music for operas and masques at Drury Lane and Lincoln's Inn Theatre. Probably composed overture for Gay's The Beggar's Opera (1728), but there is no evidence that he arranged the airs. Wrote treatise on harmony (1730) and other theoretical books. Read more on Wikipedia ...   Web Baroque-Music.com           Copyright © Baroque-Music.com 2010. All rights Reserved. Home | Instruments | Composers | Music | News