Bartholomeus Ruloffs

Dutch conductor and composer

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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

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* 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

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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

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* 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.

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