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Author of 744 books including Requiem in Full Score

Gabriel Urbain Fauré (12 May 1845 – 4 November 1924) was a French composer, organist, pianist and teacher.

He was one of the foremost French composers of his generation, and his musical style influenc…

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Charles Gounod

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Author of 365 books including Romeo and Julet

Biography taken from "The Oxford Companion to Music" ed. Percy A. Scholes (4th ed. 1941)

He inherited music from his mother, who was a fine pianist, worked at the Paris Conservatory, and won the Rome P…

Carl Maria von Weber

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Author of 622 books including Der Freischütz

German composer of the Romantic era, best known for his opera Der Freischütz.

Jacob Grimm

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Author of 6069 books including The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales

German philologist and folklorist Jakob Ludwig Karl Grimm in 1822 formulated Grimm's Law, the basis for much of modern comparative linguistics. With his brother Wilhelm Karl Grimm (1786-1859), he coll…