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Gioacchino Rossini

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Gioacchino Rossini (29 February 1792 – 13 November 1868) was an Italian opera composer, whose work includes the comic masterpiece The barber of Seville. After intensive work on the opera William ...

Georges Bizet

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Georges Bizet (Alexandre César Léopold Bizet; October 25, 1838 – June 3, 1875) was a French composer (mainly of operas) and pianist of the romantic era. He is best known for his opera Carmen.

Richard Wagner

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Wilhelm Richard Wagner (22 May 1813 – 13 February 1883) was a German composer, conductor, theatre director and polemicist primarily known for his operas (or "music dramas", as they were later ...

Austrian composer Franz Joseph Haydn (March 31 or April 1, 1732 – May 31, 1809) was one of the most prominent composers of the Classical music era, called the "Father of the Symphony" and "Father of ...

Franz Liszt

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Franz Liszt (October 22, 1811 – July 31, 1886) was a 19th-century Hungarian composer, pianist, conductor, and teacher. Regarded by most as the greatest pianist of all time, Liszt's genius extended ...

Frederic Chopin

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Frederic Chopin (22 February or 1 March 1810 – 17 October 1849) was a Polish composer renowned for his piano works. A great Romantic composer, who nevertheless wrote absolute music with formal titles ...

Giacomo Puccini

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Giacomo Puccini (full name Giacomo Antonio Domenico Michele Secondo Maria Puccini, 22 December 1858 – 29 November 1924) was the last of the great line of Italian repertoire opera composers. His ...