Who was born first, Johann Christoph Pepusch or Pietro Mascagni?
Johann Christoph Pepusch
Johann Christoph Pepusch
Johann Christoph Pepusch (1667 – 20 July 1752), also known as John Christopher Pepusch and Dr Pepusch, was a German-born composer who spent most of his working life in England.
Pietro Mascagni
Pietro Antonio Stefano Mascagni (] ; 7 December 1863 – 2 August 1945) was an Italian composer most noted for his operas. His 1890 masterpiece "Cavalleria Rusticana" caused one of the greatest sensations in opera history and single-handedly ushered in the "Verismo" movement in Italian dramatic music.
 While it was often held that Mascagni, like Leoncavallo, was a "one-opera man" who could never repeat his first success, "L'amico Fritz" and "Iris" have remained in the repertoire in Europe (especially Italy) since their premieres.
 Mascagni said that at one point, "Iris" was performed in Italy more often than "Cavalleria" (cf. Stivender).
Royal Society of Musicians
The Royal Society of Musicians of Great Britain is a charity in the United Kingdom that supports musicians.
 It is the oldest music-related charity in Great Britain, founded in 1738 as the "Fund for Decay'd Musicians" by a declaration of trust signed by 228 musicians, including Edward Purcell (eldest son of Henry Purcell), Thomas Arne, William Boyce, Johann Christoph Pepusch, Dr. John Worgan, and George Frideric Handel.
 It still operates a bank account at Drummonds Bank (now part of Royal Bank of Scotland) which was opened by its first secretary, Michael Christian Festing, in November 1738. Amica (opera)
Amica is an opera in two acts by Pietro Mascagni, originally composed to a libretto by Paul Bérel (the pseudonym of Paul de Choudens).
 The only opera by Mascagni with a French libretto, it was an immediate success with both the audience and the critics on its opening night at the Théâtre du Casino in Monte-Carlo on 16 March 1905.
 Mascagni himself conducted the performance.
 The opera had its Italian premiere (with an Italian libretto by Mascagni's close collaborator, Giovanni Targioni-Tozzetti) on 13 May 1905 at the Teatro Costanzi in Rome. The Beggar's Opera
The Beggar's Opera is a ballad opera in three acts written in 1728 by John Gay with music arranged by Johann Christoph Pepusch.
 It is one of the watershed plays in Augustan drama and is the only example of the once thriving genre of satirical ballad opera to remain popular today.
 Ballad operas were satiric musical plays that used some of the conventions of opera, but without recitative.
 The lyrics of the airs in the piece are set to popular broadsheet ballads, opera arias, church hymns and folk tunes of the time. Frederic Austin
Frederic Austin (30 March 187210 April 1952) was an English baritone singer, a musical teacher and composer in the period 1905–30.
 He is best remembered for his restoration and production of "The Beggar's Opera" by John Gay and Johann Christoph Pepusch, and its sequel, "Polly", in 1920–23.
 Austin was the older brother of the composer Ernest Austin (1874–1947). Johann Christoph Fugger
Johann Christoph Fugger (1561-1612) was a German businessman and the last famous survivor of the Fugger vom Reh branch of the Fugger family.
 He was employed at the royal court in Prague.
 In 1603 he married Regina Greiner.
 Johann Christoph was a member of the German nobility.
 His grandfather, Gastel Fugger, got a patent of nobility in 1547.
 Johann Christoph Fugger had no descendants.
 Contemporary members of the Fugger vom Reh are descendants of Matthäus Fugger (1442-1489/92).
 The current patriarch is Markus Fugger von dem Rech (born 1970). Félix Rienth
Félix Rienth (born 24 June 1970) is a Swiss operatic tenor.
 Born in Basel, he was a member of the Basel Boys Choir in his youth.
 He made his first opera appearance as a boy with Theater Basel as the first boy in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's "The Magic Flute".
 He attended the University of Basel where he earned diplomas in the Spanish and German languages.
 He then studied singing privately in Basel with Heidi Wölnerhanssen before entering the Hochschule der Künste Bern; graduating from there in 2000 with a degree in opera performance.
 He has since had a major career as a concert singer in the oratorio repertoire; appearing with important ensembles and at major music festivals throughout Europe, including a recital in presence of Her Majesty, Queen Fabiola of Belgium.
 He has made about 20 recordings on a variety of labels.
 A highly acclaimed production was the recording of Johann Christoph Pepusch]]'s "Tenor Cantatas" with his wife, Muriel Rochat Rienth, recorder player, and Swiss baroque ensemble "La Tempesta Basel".
 His CD of Spanish baroque songs "Tonos humanos" by José Marín was considered as a reference recording by German magazine "Klassik heute".
 2014 is appearing Georg Philipp Telemann's "Tenor Cantatas" with "La Tempesta Basel", elected among "Best CDs of the month" by Spanish magazine RITMO. John Travers (composer)
John Travers (ca. 1703 – June 1758) was an English composer who held the office of Organist to the Chapel Royal from 1737 to 1758.
 Before filling several parochial posts in London he had been a choir boy at St. George's Chapel, Windsor and a pupil of Johann Christoph Pepusch. Polly (opera)
Polly is a ballad opera with text by John Gay and music by Johann Christoph Pepusch.
 It is a sequel to Gay's "The Beggar's Opera".
 Due to censorship, the opera was not performed in Gay's lifetime.
 It had its world premiere on 19 June 1777 at the Haymarket Theatre in London.
 A revised and edited version of the score by Clifford Bax and Frederic Austin premiered on 30 December 1922 at the Kingsway Theatre in London.