Ruppe/ Musica AD Rhenum/ Ensemble Bouzignac - Christmas Cantata AEC Video In his pilgrimage from the

In his pilgrimage from the Cross to the heavenly light

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Ruppe/ Musica AD Rhenum/ Ensemble Bouzignac - Christmas Cantata AEC Video In his pilgrimage from theThe German born Christian Friedrich Ruppe (1753 1826) made his career in the Dutch city of Leiden, where he had originally arrived in 1773 as a student of mathematics and literature. In 1784 he married Christina Chalon (1748 1808), the daughter of the lead violinist the of the Nederlands Theater in Amsterdam. In 1890 he was appointed as music director of the city's renowned and ancient university, and from 1802 he taught theory of music there, having