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Born December 24, 1824 • Mainz • Germany
Died October 26, 1874 (aged 49) • Mainz • Germany
Notable Works “Der Cid” • “Gunlöd” • “The Barber of Bagdad”

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Richard Wagner
Richard Wagner
German composer
Felix Mendelssohn
Felix Mendelssohn
German musician and composer
Robert Schumann
Robert Schumann
German composer
Weber, Carl Maria von
Carl Maria von Weber
German composer and musician
Bertolt Brecht
Bertolt Brecht
German dramatist
Paul Hindemith.
Paul Hindemith
German composer
E.T.A. Hoffmann
German writer, composer, and painter
Werner Egk
German composer
Albert, Eugen d'
Eugen d’Albert
German composer
Franz Schubert
Franz Schubert
Austrian composer
Hector Berlioz
Hector Berlioz
French composer
Gustav Mahler
Gustav Mahler
Austrian composer
Antonín Dvořák.
Antonín Dvořák
Bohemian composer
Modest Mussorgsky, portrait by Ilya Repin, 1881; in the Gosudarstvennaya Tretyakovskaya Galereya, Moscow.
Modest Mussorgsky
Russian composer
Maurice Ravel
Maurice Ravel
French composer
Benjamin Britten
Benjamin Britten
British composer
Hofmannsthal, photograph by Thea Sternheim, 1911; in the Schiller-Nationalmuseum, Marbach, Ger.
Hugo von Hofmannsthal
Austrian author
Menotti
Gian Carlo Menotti
Italian composer
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Ralph Vaughan Williams
English composer
Hugo Wolf.
Hugo Wolf
Austrian composer

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Illustration of "The Lamb" from "Songs of Innocence" by William Blake, 1879. poem; poetry
A Study of Poetry
4:043 Dickinson, Emily: A Life of Letters, This is my letter to the world/That never wrote to me; I'll tell you how the Sun Rose/A Ribbon at a time; Hope is the thing with feathers/That perches in the soul
Famous Poets and Poetic Form
Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) only confirmed photograph of Emily Dickinson. 1978 scan of a Daguerreotype. ca. 1847; in the Amherst College Archives. American poet. See Notes:
Poetry: First Lines