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Born December 24, 1824 • Mainz • Germany
Died October 26, 1874 (aged 49) • Mainz • Germany
Notable Works “Der Cid” • “Gunlöd” • “The Barber of Bagdad”

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Peter Cornelius, engraving by Franz de Rohden, 1846
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Weber, Carl Maria von
Carl Maria von Weber
German composer and musician
Bertolt Brecht
Bertolt Brecht
German dramatist
Paul Hindemith.
Paul Hindemith
German composer
Hector Berlioz
Hector Berlioz
French composer
Richard Wagner
Richard Wagner
German composer
Felix Mendelssohn
Felix Mendelssohn
German musician and composer
Robert Schumann
Robert Schumann
German composer
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E.T.A. Hoffmann
German writer, composer, and painter
Mattheson, detail of an engraving by J.J. Haid after a painting by J.S. Wahl
Johann Mattheson
German musician and writer
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Werner Egk
German composer
Albert, Eugen d'
Eugen d’Albert
German composer
Franz Schubert
Franz Schubert
Austrian composer
Gustav Mahler
Gustav Mahler
Austrian composer
Portrait of Czech composer Antonin Dvorak with a beard, wearing a suit jacket, waistcoat, and bow tie.
Antonín Dvořák
Bohemian composer
Jean-Philippe Rameau
Jean-Philippe Rameau
French composer
Modest Mussorgsky, portrait by Ilya Repin, 1881; in the Gosudarstvennaya Tretyakovskaya Galereya, Moscow.
Modest Mussorgsky
Russian composer
Maurice Ravel
Maurice Ravel
French composer
Portrait of Benjamin Britten, British composer, wearing a suit and patterned tie, looking toward the camera with a neutral expression.
Benjamin Britten
British composer
Hofmannsthal, photograph by Thea Sternheim, 1911; in the Schiller-Nationalmuseum, Marbach, Ger.
Hugo von Hofmannsthal
Austrian author
Menotti
Gian Carlo Menotti
Italian composer

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