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Vincenzo Bellini
Popular composition: Norma.
Vincenzo Salvatore Carmelo Francesco Bellini was an Italian opera composer, who was known for his long-flowing melodic lines for which he was named "the Swan of Catania". -
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Louis-Hector Berlioz
Popular composition: Symphonie fantastique. Louis-Hector Berlioz was a French Romantic composer. His output includes orchestral works such as the Symphonie fantastique and Harold in Italy. -
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Johann Strauss I
Popular Composition: Radetzky March. Johann Strauss I was an Austrian Romantic composer. He was famous for his waltzes, and he popularized them alongside Joseph Lanner, thereby setting the foundations for his sons to carry on his musical dynasty. He is perhaps best known for his composition of the Radetzky March. -
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Jacob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn
Popular Composition: Violin Concerto. Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, born and widely known as Felix Mendelssohn, was a German composer, pianist, organist and conductor of the early Romantic period. Mendelssohn's compositions include symphonies, concertos, piano music and chamber music. -
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Wilhelm Richard Wagner
Popular Composition: Der Ring des Nibelungen. Wilhelm Richard Wagner was a German composer, theatre director, polemicist, and conductor who is chiefly known for his operas. Unlike most opera composers, Wagner wrote both the libretto and the music for each of his stage works. -
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Charles François Gounod
Popular Composition: Ave Maria. Charles-François Gounod, usually known as Charles Gounod, was a French composer. He wrote twelve operas, of which the most popular has always been Faust; his Roméo et Juliette also remains in the international repertory. -
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Jacques Offenbach
Popular Composition: Orpheus in the Underworld. Jacques Offenbach was a German-French composer, cellist and impresario of the romantic period. He is remembered for his nearly 100 operettas of the 1850s–1870s and his uncompleted opera The Tales of Hoffmann. -
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Johann Strauss II
Popular Composition: The Blue Danube. Johann Strauss II, also known as Johann Strauss Jr., the Younger, the Son, son of Johann Strauss I, was an Austrian composer of light music, particularly dance music and operettas. He composed over 500 waltzes, polkas, quadrilles, and other types of dance music, as well as several operettas and a ballet. -
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Giuseppe Fortunino Frencesco Verdi
Popular Composition: La traviata. Giuseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi was an Italian opera composer. He was born near Busseto to a provincial family of moderate means, and developed a musical education with the help of a local patron. -
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Johannes Brahms
Popular Composition: Symphony No. 1
Johannes Brahms was a German composer, pianist, and conductor of the Romantic period. Born in Hamburg into a Lutheran family, Brahms spent much of his professional life in Vienna. -
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Eduard Strauss
Popular Composition: Bahn Frei.
Eduard "Edi" Strauss was an Austrian composer who, together with his brothers Johann Strauss II and Josef Strauss made up the Strauss musical dynasty. He was the son of Johann Strauss I and Maria Anna Streim. -
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Georges Bizet
Popular Composition: Carmen.
Georges Bizet, registered at birth as Alexandre César Léopold Bizet, was a French composer of the Romantic era. -
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Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky
Popular Composition: Pictures at an Exhibition
Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky was a Russian composer, one of the group known as "The Five". He was an innovator of Russian music in the romantic period. He strove to achieve a uniquely Russian musical identity, often in deliberate defiance of the established conventions of Western music.