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Pepusch, Johann Christoph (1667–1752)| German composer. He settled in England in about 1700 and contributed to John Gay's ballad operas The Beggar's Opera and Polly. |
| Pepusch was appointed to the Prussian court at the age of 14. After emigrating to Holland, he went to England about 1700, and settled in London for the rest of his life. He married Margherita de l'Epine in 1718. |
Works Opera and stage recitatives and songs for the pasticcio opera Thomyris (1707), and probably others; incidental music for Colley Cibber's Myrtillo (1715); music for masques Apollo and Daphne (1716), The Death of Dido (1716), The Union of the Sister Arts, Venus and Adonis (1715); dramatic ode for the Peace of Utrecht; overture for The Beggar's Opera and arrangements for it and its sequel, Polly, and another ballad opera, The Wedding (1729). |
Church and secular music services, anthems, and Latin motets; cantatas (to words by John Hughes), including Alexis and others; odes; concertos; sonatas. |
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