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Johann Georg Albrechtsberger
Johann Georg Albrechtsberger
Austrian music educator, composer and organist
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George Onslow
George Onslow
French composer
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Josef Reicha
Josef Reicha
Czech composer and violoncellist
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Luigi Cherubini
Luigi Cherubini
Italian composer
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Robert Simpson
Robert Simpson
English composer and BBC producer and broadcaster
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Johannes Brahms
Johannes Brahms
German composer and pianist
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Charles Koechlin
Charles Koechlin
French composer, teacher and writer on music
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Juan Crisóstomo de Arriaga
Juan Crisóstomo de Arriaga
Spanish composer
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Ambroise Thomas
Ambroise Thomas
French composer
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Hector Berlioz
Hector Berlioz
French Romantic composer
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Lucien Durosoir
Lucien Durosoir
composer
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Guillaume Lekeu
Guillaume Lekeu
Belgian composer
12
César Franck
César Franck
Belgian-French composer, organist and music teacher
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André Jolivet
André Jolivet
French composer
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Walter Braunfels
Walter Braunfels
German composer, pianist, and music educator
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Paul Dukas
Paul Dukas
French composer
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Aulis Sallinen
Aulis Sallinen
Finnish composer
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Franz Schubert
Franz Schubert
Austrian composer
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Donald Tovey
Donald Tovey
British composer
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Felix Weingartner
Felix Weingartner
Austrian conductor, composer and pianist
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Alexander Goehr
Alexander Goehr
English composer
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Friedrich Kuhlau
Friedrich Kuhlau
Danish composer
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Ludwig van Beethoven
Ludwig van Beethoven
German classical and romantic composer
Anton Reicha
Czech-born French composer

Anton Reicha

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Czech-born French composer
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Awards Received
Legion of Honour
Music
Member of, past and present
Académie des beaux-arts

Académie des beaux-arts

Anton Reicha, 1815

Anton (Antonín, Antoine) Joseph Reicha (Rejcha) (26 February 1770 – 28 May 1836) was a Czech-born, Bavarian-educated, later naturalized French composer and music theorist. A contemporary and lifelong friend of Beethoven, he is now best remembered for his substantial early contributions to the wind quintet literature and his role as teacher of pupils including Franz Liszt, Hector Berlioz and César Franck. He was also an accomplished theorist, and wrote several treatises on various aspects of composition. Some of his theoretical work dealt with experimental methods of composition, which he applied in a variety of works such as fugues and études for piano and string quartet.

None of the advanced ideas he advocated in the most radical of his music and writings, such as polyrhythm, polytonality and microtonal music, were accepted or employed by other nineteenth-century composers. Due to Reicha's unwillingness to have his music published (like Michael Haydn before him), he fell into obscurity soon after his death and his life and work have yet to be intensively studied.