Friedrich Wilhelm Rust

(1739-1796)

"Il Campo di Rialto" (1763), oil on canvas, 119 x 186 cm, of the painter Giovanni Antonio Canaletto, contemporary of Rust (Gemaeldegalerie, Berlin)

The musician Friedrich Wilhelm Rust was a author of vocal and instrumental music; was born in Wörlitz on the 6th July 1739, the same year of the composers Accorimboni, Dittersdorf, Legros, Pouteau, Rispoli, Vanhal. Died in Dessau on the 28th February 1796

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Music examples MIDI ed Mp3 of late Baroque

Friedrich Wilhelm Rust

OPERE

"Inkle und Yariko" was performed on the 28th of July 1777 in Dessau

"Der blaue Montag" has been represented in Dessau in 1777

"Colma" has been put on the stage in carnival 1780

"Korylas und Lalage" has been represented in 1786

LIEDER

"La Partenza di Nice" (Ecco quel fiero istante), published in 1784, text of Pietro Metastasio (1698-1782)

"Lied" (Der du von dem Himmel bist), text of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)

"Du bist wie eine Blume", op. 14 n. 4, text of Heinrich Heine (1797-1856)

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