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Hayden's patron and employer after 1790
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Instrumental in moving music towards Romanticism; he is an icon in our present culture; he established the heroic topic in orchestral music and was the transitional composer between classism and romanticism.
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German writer and composer; writer of The Nutcracker Fable; his writings emitomize romanticism; also an artist.
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Founder of German Romantic Opera; studied with Michael Haydn; important conductor
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The most famous composer in the early 19th century in Vienna; composed mostly choral music and operas; Italian
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Student of Mayr; Verdi's immediatge forerunner in serious Italian opera; prolific composer of all games
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Australian composer who created a genre of artistic and dramatic Lieder; expansive melodies; frequent modulations; many unfinished works; romanticized after his early death
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Italian opera composer; created dramas with extreme passion, action, and emotion
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The Louisiana Purchase was the acquisition of the territory of Louisiana by the United States from France in 1803. In return for fifteen million dollars, or approximately eighteen dollars per square mile
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French composer, conductor, writer, and innovator; he was the leading French musician in his day; his works embodied the notions of romanticism.
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The father of Russian music; European trained; prolific
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Had the same training as Felix; she was discouraged from composing; married, the published more; her house was a center for intellectuals and culture
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Early romantic; conservative style; important as a conductor; revived Bach's music, German composer Jewish heritage.
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Important as critic, editor, and composer; center of musical life; lost his sanity at a young age.
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Polish/French composer and pianist; he innovated new piano techniques; he is more famous today than during his lifetime; known for his character pieces
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Virtuoso pianist; conductor; author; supporter of Wagner; innovator in musical form, aesthetics, and harmonies; inventor of the orchestral tone poem
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The leading Italian opera of the 19th century; became a national hero of Italy
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Creator of German Music Drama; conductor, writer, musical innovator; wrote about the future of music; Anti-Semite; profoundly influenced Western harmonies; strove for endless melodies
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French prolific composer; wrote in most genres of the day
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Virtuoso pianist; wife of Robert Schumann; close friend of Brahms
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French nationalist composer, teacher, and organist
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Austrian composer and organist; follower of Wagner; known for his large orchestrations; incredibly conscientious approach to composition
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Czech composer; 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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Austrian composer; known as a classic-romantic; strong knowledge of the musical past; one of the first editors of Bach's music; conductor, pianist; friend with the Schumanns; never wrote an opera
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French composer, pianist, organist, and writer
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French composer who created a new type of serious French opera
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One of the Russian Mighty Five; most famous of the 5 today; his music is rooted in Russian folksong and lore
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American; organist, composer; teacher of the new generation of American composers; Harvard's first professor of music
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Russian composer, conductor and teacher; Western trained; emotional; conservative harmonic language
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The most famous of the Czech composers; lived in the USA; influenced by African American and Native American music and culture
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One of the 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; head of the Paris Conservatory
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The Mexican-American War was a conflict between the United States and Mexico, fought from April 1846 to February 1848.
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American; leader of the U.S. Marine band in 1880
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Czech composer; ethnomusicologist; influenced by folk music
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English composer; received international acclaim; not folksong oriented
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Italian opera composer; gift for delicate melodies; strove for realism; the most successful Italian opera composer after Verdi
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Wrote mostly Lieder; influenced by Wagner
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The American Civil War was a civil war in the United States from 1861 to 1865, fought between northern states loyal to the Union and southern states that had seceded to form the Confederate States of America.
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At 7:22 a.m., Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States, dies from a bullet wound inflicted the night before by John Wilkes Booth, an actor and Confederate sympathizer.
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The Spanish–American War was an armed conflict between Spain and the United States in 1898. Hostilities began in the aftermath of the internal explosion of USS Maine in Havana Harbor in Cuba, leading to U.S. intervention in the Cuban War of Independence.