Jean Pietrapertosa

Jean Pietrapertosa (1855–1940) was a composer and virtuoso of the mandolin who performed in Paris in the 1880s. He taught the mandolin and wrote a two-volume mandolin method book, Méthode de mandolin, published in Paris in 1892. He also organized a mandolin orchestra. Name confusion There is confusion about the identity of some works by Pietrapertosa. There are works by “J. Pietrapertosa” that may not have been Jean’s but Janvier’s. It has not been cleared up as to whether these are two different men or if “Janvier Pietrapertosa Fils” is a different person, possibly his son. Works Books *Methode complete de mandoline ou banjoline *Methode de mandoline Compositions *Ada-berceuse / transcription par Giuseppe Bellenghi; J. Pietrapertosa (Firenze : A. Forlivesi e C., dep.1889) *Au bord du Gange de Felix Mendelssohn: transcription pour mandoline (ou violon) et piano : Op. 87 (Paris : G. Ricordi & C 1893) *Deux transcription pour mandoline et piano (London: Schott) *Frais minois, Op.217 *Gavotte Stephanie Op. 120, transcription del Alphons Czibulka; transcription pour Mandoline et Piano (Brussels: Schott Frères, 1889) Dedicated to Eduardo Mezzacapo. *Jolis yeux noirs: valse pour Mandolin