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Born March 25, 1784 • Mons • Belgium
Died March 26, 1871 (aged 87) • Brussels • Belgium
Subjects Of Study counterpoint • fugue • music
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Austrian composer
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Friedrich Chrysander
German music historian and critic
Zarlino, Gioseffo
Gioseffo Zarlino
Italian composer
Eduard Hanslick
Eduard Hanslick
Austrian music critic
Mattheson, detail of an engraving by J.J. Haid after a painting by J.S. Wahl
Johann Mattheson
German musician and writer
Huneker, James Gibbons
James Gibbons Huneker
American art critic and writer
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Friedrich Wilhelm Marpurg
German composer
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Johannes Tinctoris
Belgian composer
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Johann Nikolaus Forkel
German musicologist and writer
César Franck, detail of a portrait by J. Rongier; in a private collection.
César Franck
Belgian-French composer
Henri Pousseur
Henri Pousseur
Belgian composer
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Sidney Colvin
English scholar
Ludwig van Beethoven
Ludwig van Beethoven
German composer
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Austrian composer
Painting by Elias Gottlieb Hausmann of Johann Sebastian Bach wearing a dark coat with a white shirt and holding a sheet of music in his left hand.
Johann Sebastian Bach
German composer
Giuseppe Verdi
Giuseppe Verdi
Italian composer
Richard Wagner
Richard Wagner
German composer
Johannes Brahms
Johannes Brahms
German composer
Franz Liszt
Franz Liszt
Hungarian composer
George Bernard Shaw
George Bernard Shaw
Irish dramatist and critic