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Instrumental in moving music towards Romanticism; an icon in our present culture
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German writer and composer; writer of "The Nutcracker Fable"
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Founder of German Romantic Opera
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The most famous composer in the early 19th century in Vienna
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A state institution for the training of musicians
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Student of Mayr and Verdi's immediate forerunner in Italian opera
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Austrian composer who created a genre of artistic and dramatic Lieder
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Italian opera composer
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French composer, conductor, writer, and innovator; was leading French musician of his day
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The father of Russian music
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Same training as Felix but was discouraged from composing. Married, then published Lieder's, overtures and choral works.
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Early romantic with a conservative style; revived Bach's music
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Important as critic, editor, and composer
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Polish/French composer and pianist; more famous today
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Virtuoso pianist; conductor; author; innovator in musical form, aesthetics, and harmonies; inventor of orchestral tone poem
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Leading Italian opera composer of the 19th century
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Creator of German Music Drama
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using Joseph Nicéphore Niépce's camera obscura
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Europe was reorganized after agreements were reached
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By Franz Schubert
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French prolific composer
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“Der Freischütz” by Carl Maria von Weber
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Virtuoso pianist; wife of Robert Schumann
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Louis Spohr first uses the conductor's baton
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French nationalist composer, teacher, and organist
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Austrian composer and organist; known for his large orchestrations
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Czechcomposer; established Czech opera in the 19th century
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Viennese composer, conductor, and violinist; called the "Waltz-King"
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American songwriter; vernacular style
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By Hector Berlioz, a new and modern approach to symphonies with innovative orchestration - "Symphonie Fantastique"
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Austrian composer; known as a classic-romantic
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French composer, pianist, organist, and writer
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One of the Russian Mighty Five; most famous of the 5 today
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American organist, composer, first music professor at Harvard
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Russian composer, conductor and teacher who wrote emotional pieces with conservative harmonic language
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The most famous of the Czech composers; live in USA and was influenced by African-American and Native American culture
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Russian Mighty Five; important as a teacher; conductor; wrote an orchestration treatise
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French composer, teacher and keyboardist; he foreshadowed modern tonality and style; extremely important as a teacher
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By Franz Liszt; a one-movement orchestral work
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Composed by Verdi, first produced in Venice, Italy
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Czech composer; ethnomusicologist; influenced by folk music
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American; leader of the U.S. Marine Band in 1880
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English composer; received international acclaim; not folksong oriented
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Italian opera composer; gift for delicate melodies
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Composer who wrote mostly Lieder and was influenced by Wagner
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By Karl Benz, it was powered by an internal combustion engine