Born in Vienna, baptized April 6, 1708
Died in Vienna, March 11, 1772
- Reutter spent most of his career working for the Habsburg court, as an opera composer and as an imperial Kapellmeister.
- This composer is sometimes referred to as Georg Reutter the Younger because his father, Georg Reutter the Elder (1656-1738) was also an organist, and was in fact the organist at St. Stephen’s Cathedral before Reutter Jr. took the position upon his father’s retirement.
- Fun fact: Reutter was in charge of the choir school at the St. Stephen’s Cathedral (Stephansdom) in Vienna while Joseph and Michael Haydn were students there.1
Sources
- David Wyn Jones, “Reutter, (Johann Adam Joseph Karl) Georg (ii),” Grove Music Online (2001), accessed January 7, 2020, https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-0000023278.