Bartholomeus Ruloffs

Bartholomeus Ruloffs (October 1741 - 13 May 1801) was a Dutch conductor and composer.

Ruloffs was born and died in Amsterdam. His duties as conductor included conducting the city's Felix Meritis concerts.[1] His new music for Zemire en Azor, a zangspel with scenery and ballets, for Pieter Pypers' 1784 Dutch version of the play by Jean-François Marmontel was a significant early step towards producing an opera in Dutch.

Selected works

• Les décréations d’Apollon on les trois symphonies a deux violons, taille et basse obligé, deux flutes et deux corni de chasse tiré des nouveaux opéras français. printed by J.J. Hummel in Amsterdam.
• Music for Zemire en Azor (1784), one of the earliest opera in the Netherlands.
• Six sonatas for keyboard (Markordt, 1769)
• Derde stukje der muzikale verlustiging (Smit, 1772)
• Cantate historique (1777)
• Jephta (Kruyff, 1779) a theatrical zangspel.
• Marsch-retraite, for the burger company of watch district 40, Hieronimus van Slingelandt
• Beurtgezangen , Elk zyn beurt is niet te veel (1785)
• Proeve van kleine gedichten voor kinderen; text Hieronymus van Alphen (Gerbrand Roos, 1790)
• Tot middernacht (List of tegenlist), zangspel (Helders en Mars, 1791)
• Willem Tell (1791)
• In triomf (1795)
• nl:De bruiloft van Kloris en Roosje.

References

1. Music in the Netherlands Leo Samama, Fer Abrahams, Michiel de Ruyter - 1985 - - Page 9 "Around 1775 it consisted of 16 musicians under the capable direction of the composer Bartholomeus Ruloffs (1741-1801). Soon after the City Theatre on Keizersgracht burned down in 1772 Ruloffs was appointed conductor of the Theatre Orchestra: in 1774 he took charge of the festive opening of the new Theatre on Leidse Plein, ...

Further reading

• Frijhoff, Willem, and Marijke Spies. Dutch Culture in a European Perspective. Uitgeverij Van Gorcum, 2004.
• Warrack, John. The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Opera. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1996.