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Baptized May 8, 1745 • Mannheim • Germany
Died November 9, 1801 • Jena • Germany
Movement / Style Mannheim school
Notable Family Members father Johann Stamitz
Ludwig van Beethoven
Ludwig van Beethoven
German composer
Robert Schumann
Robert Schumann
German composer
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Austrian composer
Joseph Haydn
Joseph Haydn
Austrian composer
Luigi Boccherini
Luigi Boccherini
Italian composer
Ditters von Dittersdorf, Carl
Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf
Austrian composer and violinist
Johannes Brahms
Johannes Brahms
German composer
Felix Mendelssohn
Felix Mendelssohn
German musician and composer
C.P.E. Bach
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
German composer
Paul Hindemith.
Paul Hindemith
German composer
Hans Werner Henze.
Hans Werner Henze
German composer
Johann Christian Bach
German composer
Louis Spohr
German musician
Carl Friedrich Abel, engraving by A. Saint-Aubin after a portrait by C.-N. Cochin, 1781
Carl Friedrich Abel
German composer
Johann Stamitz
Bohemian composer
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Russian composer
Franz Liszt
Franz Liszt
Hungarian composer
Sergey Prokofiev
Sergey Prokofiev
Russian composer
Igor Stravinsky
Igor Stravinsky
Russian composer
Arnold Schoenberg
Arnold Schoenberg
American composer

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