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Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
b. 2-3-1809; Hamburg, Germany
d. 11-4-1847
Composer, pianist, organist and conductor of the early Romantic period, Felix Mendelssohn's work includes symphonies, concerti, oratorios, piano music and chamber music. Today his most-performed works include Overture and incidental music for A Midsummer Night's Dream, the Italian Symphony, the Scottish Symphony, the Hebrides Overture, his Violin Concerto, and his String Octet.
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Fanny Cäcilie Mendelssohn
b. 11-14-1805; Hamburg, Germany
d. 5-14-1847
Fanny Cäcilie Mendelssohn, sister of Felix Mendelssohn, was a composer and pianist of considerable skill. She married painter Wilhelm Hensel, and as her father instructed her, “Music . . . for you it can, and must be, only an ornament.”
• Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel: Das Jahr (The Year)
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Andre-Charles-Prosper Messager
b. 10-30-1853; Montluçon, France
d. 2-24-1929; Paris
Composer, organist, pianist, and conductor Andre-Charles-Prosper Messager compositions included ballets and 30 opéra comiques and operettas such as Véronique, Les p'tites Michu and Monsieur Beaucaire.
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Giacomo Meyerbeer
b. 9-5-1791; Tasdorf, near Berlin, Germany
d. 5-2-1864; Paris
Composer and the first great exponent of Grand Opera of “dramatic music, melodramatic plot and sumptuous staging”, Giacomo Meyerbeer is little remembered today. His reputation was harmed by the hatred and jealousy of Richard Wagner who resented Meyerbeer's success, wealth, and Jewish faith; later the Nazi's banned the performance of Meyerbeer's compositions.
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Aloysius Ludwig Minkus
b. 3-23-1826; Austrian Empire
d. 1917
Ludwig Minkus is best known for his compositions for the ballets Don Quixote (1869) and La Bayadere (1877), and his collaborations with ballet masters Marius Petipa and Arthur Saint-Leon.
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