Background
Johann Christoph Pepusch was born in 1667 in Berlin, Germany.
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Johann Christoph Pepusch was born in 1667 in Berlin, Germany.
He began his study of music at an early age, and about 1700 left Berlin and went to England, where he had various engagements, and where he went on with his researches into ancient music. In 1713 he was made a Mus. D. of Oxford.
In the 1720s he became music director at Lincoln’s Inn Fields Theatre, for which he wrote several masques and arranged the tunes and composed the overtures for John Gay’s Beggar’s Opera (1728) and its sequel Polly (unperformed until 1777).
In 1737 he became organist at the Charterhouse. Pepusch was in demand as a teacher; William Boyce was among his pupils. He also collected a magnificent library of music books and scores. Interested in music of the Renaissance and of ancient Greece and Rome, he strongly influenced early musical antiquarianism in England; one result was the publication of Boyce’s anthology Cathedral Music (of 16th- and 17th-century England). Pepusch helped form the Academy of Ancient Music, which performed works by 16th-century composers, and edited some works of Arcangelo Corelli.
Pepusch’s own compositions include cantatas, concerti, and chamber music.
Pepusch died in London on the 20th of July 1752.
His Treatise on Harmony is believed to have been an embodiment of his rules drafted by his pupil Viscount Paisley, afterwards earl of Abercorn.
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In 1746 he became a Fellow of the Royal Society.
In 1718 he married Margarita de I'Epine (d. 1746), who, as the first Italian to sing in England, was described in 1692 in the London Gazette simply as "the Italian woman. "