Johann Peter Cavallo

Johann Peter Cavallo (23 December 1819, Munich – 19 April 1892, Paris)[1] was a German organist, pianist and composer of Italian origin and active in France.[2] He settled in Paris around 1842,[3] where he was organist in the churches of St. Vincent de Paul,[3] St. Germain-des-Prés[2] and St. Nicolas des Champs between 1851 and 1863. He became famous as pianist in the 1850s and then published Veillées des salons,[4] a monthly sheet music magazine of short piano pieces of his own compositions in association with choirmaster Frédéric Viret.[5]

Selected works

• Valse rustique, Op. 24
• Le Crépuscule, Op. 33
• Un Dernier Jour d'hiver, Op. 46
• Mazurka, Op. 47
• La Tristesse, Op. 48
• Fandango, Op. 49
• Le Vertige, Op. 50
• Pensée Fugitive, Op. 56
• Galop des Sylphes, Op. 57
• Près la Fontaine du Loup, Op. 61

References

1. Joël-Marie Fauquet (editor), Dictionnaire de la Musique en France au xixe siècle, Fayard, Paris, 2003. Page 1405
2. Åstrand, Hans (2005). Nomenclator over udvalgte Komponister og Arrangører (PDF) (in Danish). Stockholm: Fuks Nodeblibiotek. p. 148.
3. Ochse, Orpha (2000). Organists and Organ Playing in Nineteenth-Century France and Belgium. Indiana University Press. pp. 48–49. ISBN 025-321-423-8.
4. Bibliothèque nationale (1826). Bibliographie de la France (in French). Paris: Cercle de la librairie. p. 304. ISSN 0006-1344.
5. Gazette Musicalle (1852). Gazette musicale de Paris, Vol 19 (in French). Paris: Gazette nusicalle de Paris. p. 140. OCLC 62382040.

Attribution

• This article is based on the translation of the corresponding article of the French Wikipedia. A list of contributors can be found there at the History section.

External links

• Free scores by Johann Peter Cavallo at the International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP)