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Peter Ritter, the Glossary

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.^[1]

27 relations: Antonio Salieri, August von Kotzebue, Baden-Württemberg, Carl Maria von Weber, Carlo Gozzi, Cello, Christian Friedrich Schwan, Clemens Brentano, Composer, Concertmaster, Conducting, Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart, Georg Joseph Vogler, Germany, Giacomo Meyerbeer, Gottfried August Bürger, Holy God, We Praise Thy Name, Karlsruhe, Mannheim, Mannheim National Theatre, Michael Frey (composer), Oboe, Pietro Metastasio, Siegfried August Mahlmann, The Merry Wives of Windsor, William Shakespeare, Wolfgang Heribert von Dalberg.
Musicians from Mannheim

Antonio Salieri

Antonio Salieri (18 August 17507 May 1825) was an Italian composer and teacher of the classical period.

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August von Kotzebue

August Friedrich Ferdinand von Kotzebue (–) was a German playwright, who had also worked as a Russian diplomat.

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Baden-Württemberg

Baden-Württemberg, commonly shortened to BW or BaWü, is a German state in Southwest Germany, east of the Rhine, which forms the southern part of Germany's western border with France.

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Carl Maria von Weber

Carl Maria Friedrich Ernst von Weber (5 June 1826) was a German composer, conductor, virtuoso pianist, guitarist, and critic of the early Romantic period.

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Carlo Gozzi

Carlo, Count Gozzi (13 December 1720 – 4 April 1806) was an Italian (Venetian) playwright and champion of Commedia dell'arte.

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Cello

The violoncello, often simply abbreviated as cello, is a bowed (sometimes plucked and occasionally hit) string instrument of the violin family.

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Christian Friedrich Schwan

Christian Friedrich Schwan (12 December 1733, Prenzlau – 29 June 1815, Heidelberg) was a German publisher and bookseller.

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Clemens Brentano

Clemens Wenzeslaus Brentano (also Klemens; pseudonym: Clemens Maria Brentano;; 9 September 1778 – 28 July 1842) was a German poet and novelist, and a major figure of German Romanticism.

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Composer

A composer is a person who writes music.

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Concertmaster

The concertmaster (from the German Konzertmeister), first chair (U.S.) or leader (U.K.) is the principal first violin player in an orchestra (clarinet or oboe in a concert band).

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Conducting

Conducting is the art of directing a musical performance, such as an orchestral or choral concert.

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Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart

Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart (MGG; "Music in the Past and Present") is a German music encyclopedia.

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Georg Joseph Vogler

Abbé Vogler Georg Joseph Vogler, also known as Abbé Vogler (June 15, 1749 – May 6, 1814), was a German composer, organist, teacher and theorist. Peter Ritter and Georg Joseph Vogler are German Classical-period composers.

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Germany

Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG), is a country in Central Europe.

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Giacomo Meyerbeer

Giacomo Meyerbeer (born Jakob Liebmann Meyer Beer; 5 September 1791 – 2 May 1864) was a German opera composer, "the most frequently performed opera composer during the nineteenth century, linking Mozart and Wagner".

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Gottfried August Bürger

Gottfried August Bürger (31 December 1747 – 8 June 1794) was a German poet.

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Holy God, We Praise Thy Name

"Holy God, We Praise Thy Name" (original German: "Großer Gott, wir loben dich") is a Christian hymn, a paraphrase of the Te Deum.

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Karlsruhe

Karlsruhe (South Franconian: Kallsruh) is the third-largest city of the German state of Baden-Württemberg, after its capital Stuttgart and Mannheim, and the 22nd-largest city in the nation, with 308,436 inhabitants.

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Mannheim

Mannheim (Palatine German: Mannem or Monnem), officially the University City of Mannheim (Universitätsstadt Mannheim), is the second-largest city in the German state of Baden-Württemberg, after the state capital of Stuttgart, and Germany's 21st-largest city, with a 2021 population of 311,831 inhabitants.

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Mannheim National Theatre

Mannheim National Theatre is Germany's biggest theatre that records over 3,000 artistes from different surrounding theatres.

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Michael Frey (composer)

Michael Frey (1787 – 10 August 1832) was a German violinist, chorus master, and composer. Peter Ritter and Michael Frey (composer) are German conductors (music).

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Oboe

The oboe is a type of double-reed woodwind instrument.

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Pietro Antonio Domenico Trapassi (3 January 1698 – 12 April 1782), better known by his pseudonym of Pietro Metastasio, was an Italian poet and librettist, considered the most important writer of opera seria libretti.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Ritter

Also known as Johann Peter Ritter, Ritter, Peter.