Hermann Raupach

Raupach was a harpsichordist, who became the assistant of Vincenzo Manfredini, at the Russian Imperial Court Orchestra in Saint Petersburg in 1755.

The role of Admet in this opera was sung by Dmitry Bortniansky, called the "Orpheus of the Neva River".

In 1762 Raupach left St Petersburg for Hamburg and then to Paris, where he met Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and improvised with him on harpsichord in 4 hands.

The Sonata for Piano and Violin in A major, that was listed as K. 61,[a] first appeared under Mozart's name in the Breitkopf & Härtel OEuvres in 1804.

Later Raupach returned to St Petersburg, where he became the instructor of composition and singing at the Academy of Fine Arts from 1768 to 1778.

W. A. Mozart's adaptation of Andantino from the Sonata by Hermann Raupach in his Piano Concerto No. 4, in G, the second movement, K. 41, dated by Leopold Mozart July 1767, Salzburg.
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