[Sheet music] Peter Prelleur (1705-1741) - Sinfonia co VV.|n|i Ob: Tromb: Viola e Basso. 11. St.

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Composer: Peter Prelleur (1705-1741)
Work: Sinfonia co VV.|n|i Ob: Tromb: Viola e Basso. 11. St.
Software: Sibelius + Instruments samples
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Sheet music (pdf): https://s9.imslp.org/files/imglnks/usimg/6/61/IMSLP92163-PMLP140515-Prelleur_concerto.pdf
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Peter [Pierre] Prelleur
(London?, 1705 - London, 25 June 1741)

English composer, organist and harpsichordist. He was perhaps the Pierre Preleur, son of Jacque and Francoise, who was baptized at the French church, Threadneedle Street, London, on 16 December 1705. He began his career as a writing master in Spitalfields. He played the harpsichord at the Angel and Crown tavern in Whitechapel before becoming organist at St Alban Wood Street in 1728. Soon after Goodman's Fields Theatre opened on 31 October 1729, he was engaged there to play the harpsichord, compose music and arrange ballad operas. His first known benefit, shared with John Giles (fl. 1710-40), was on 13 May 1731. In March 1736 he was elected first organist of Christ Church, Spitalfields, triumphing over stiff competition and intrigue. When Goodman's Fields closed under the Licensing Act of 1737, Prelleur transferred to New Wells (or Goodman's Fields Wells) Theatre in Leman Street, where he composed several pantomimes, and the delightful interlude Baucis and Philemon (1740), which was published with the overture in full score, but without violas. He was one of the original subscribers to the Royal Society of Musicians on 28 August 1739. He died after a short illness, and his obituary described him as ‘a sincere good-natur'd man, and one of the few of whom may be said he has not left an Enemy behind him’. His burial took place on 27 June, accompanied by the singing of the Charity Children, whom he had taught.

A concerto for two trumpets by ‘Signr. Prelure’ in the Sächsische Landesbibliothek, Dresden, is virtually identical to one in a set of anonymous orchestral works in the British Library. The latter includes two overtures, concertos and dance movements, grouped into three ‘acts’; it is not clear if this implies a stage work, as the term was often used to divide concert programmes. It ends with a short St Cecilia ode, Patron of the tuneful nine, clearly by the same composer. Perhaps the whole set, which is surprisingly fully scored, was intended as an entertainment for some special occasion. Its attribution to Prelleur is strengthened by the concordance with a movement in one of the organ voluntaries ascribed to him. A manuscript set of concerti grossi is also attributed to Prelleur; the pieces are italianate in style, with contrapuntal suspensions and virtuoso solo passage-work. The set comprises eight concertos: no.1 is incomplete, no.3 is for two trumpets and no.5 is titled ‘overture’. Generally the quality of these works shows Prelleur to have been a more considerable composer than could previously have been judged. His reputation has rested mainly on the publication of his educational work, which began, according to Hawkins, with a commission by Cluer and Dicey to write an Introduction to Singing (London, 1735). This was first published as the first part of a much larger work entitled The Modern Musick-Master, or The Universal Musician (London, 1730/31/R), a beautifully printed book that also contains instructions for playing a variety of instruments, a history of music and a musical dictionary. #ClassicalMusic