Carl Georg Reutter

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Carl Georg Reutter (the Younger) was born as the son of Georg Reutter (the Elder) in Vienna on 8 April 1708. Carl Georg Reutter was a pupil of his father and of Antonio Caldara, and began composing for the court in 1726. After a journey to Italy, he became court composer in 1731. After his father's death he became kapellmeister of St. Stephen's Cathedral in 1738.

While touring the provinces in a search for new choristers, Reutter auditioned Joseph Haydn as a child in 1740. Both Joseph and his brother Michael sang in Reutter's ensemble during their childhood and teenage years. The memoirs dictated by Joseph to biographers in his old age indicate that Reutter's choristers often were underfed, thanks to Reutter's reluctance to spend money on them.

Reutter later advanced to the position of court Kapellmeister, and Empress Maria Theresia gave him the sole management of the court orchestra in 1751. Reutter died in Vienna on 11 March 1772.

Reutter worked as a composer of church music, and is thought to have written De profundis, KV 93, formerly ascribed to Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.