Johann Adam Joseph Karl Georg Reutter

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Johann Adam Joseph Karl Georg Reutter (baptised 6 April 1708; died 11 March 1772) was a Vienna-based Austrian composer and Kapellmeister, remembered as Georg Reutter “the Younger.” Born into the St Stephen’s Cathedral musical world, he trained first under his father Georg Reutter “the Elder” and later with the court composer Antonio Caldara, whose operatic style shaped Reutter’s early theatre works. In 1727 his first opera, Archidamia, was staged at the Viennese court, and after a study journey to Venice and Rome he entered long-term Habsburg service as court composer (1731). Reutter’s career is closely tied to Vienna’s two great musical poles: the imperial court and St Stephen’s Cathedral. He took on the duties of first cathedral Kapellmeister in 1736 and formally succeeded his father in 1738, directing music at St Stephen’s for decades while also rising through the court chapel hierarchy—appointed second court Kapellmeister with responsibility for church music (1747), leading the Hofkapelle from 1751, and receiving the title of first Kapellmeister in 1767. His family formed part of this institutional dynasty: his brother Karl Joseph Reutter served as organist at St Stephen’s from 1720, and Reutter himself had children (Karl and Elisabeth) with his wife Theresia Holzhauser. As a composer, Reutter wrote extensively for Vienna’s sacred and ceremonial life, with many works preserved in manuscript and catalogued in major music-source databases. He also stands at a key point in

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