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Carl Maria von Weber
Carl Maria von Weber
German composer
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Carl Loewe
Carl Loewe
German composer
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George Whitefield Chadwick
George Whitefield Chadwick
American composer
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Robert Schumann
Robert Schumann
German composer
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Jerome Moross
Jerome Moross
American composer; film score composer
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Philip Glass
Philip Glass
American composer and pianist
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Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck
Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck
Dutch composer, organist, and pedagogue in the Renaissance-Baroque eras
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Edward German
Edward German
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Antonio Bazzini
Antonio Bazzini
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Gustav Mahler
Gustav Mahler
Austrian late-Romantic composer
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Adolphe Adam
Adolphe Adam
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James Bernard
James Bernard
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Austrian composer of the Classical period
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William Alwyn
William Alwyn
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Richard Strauss
Richard Strauss
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Giacomo Meyerbeer
Giacomo Meyerbeer
German Jewish opera composer
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Charles Gounod
Charles Gounod
French composer
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Giacomo Puccini
Giacomo Puccini
Italian opera composer (1858-1924)
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Erich Wolfgang Korngold
Erich Wolfgang Korngold
American composer of Austro-Hungarian birth
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Richard Wagner
Richard Wagner
German composer and conductor
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Henry Purcell
Henry Purcell
English composer
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Georges Bizet
Georges Bizet
French composer
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Benjamin Britten
Benjamin Britten
English composer, conductor, and pianist
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Camille Saint-Saëns
Camille Saint-Saëns
French composer, organist, conductor and pianist
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Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky
Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky
Russian composer (1839-1881)
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Ruggero Leoncavallo
Ruggero Leoncavallo
Italian composer
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Albert Coates
Albert Coates
British conductor
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Marin Goleminov
Marin Goleminov
Bulgarian musician
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Jacques Offenbach
Jacques Offenbach
German-born French composer, cellist and impresario
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Ignaz Brüll
Ignaz Brüll
Austrian musician
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Arthur Sullivan
Arthur Sullivan
English composer of the Gilbert & Sullivan duo
Gottfried Finger
Czech composer and violoncellist

Gottfried Finger

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Czech composer and violoncellist
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Gottfried Finger (ca. 1655-6 – buried 31 August 1730), also Godfrey Finger, was a Moravian Baroque composer. He was also a virtuoso on the viol, and many of his compositions were for the instrument. He also wrote operas. Finger was born in Olomouc, modern-day Czech Republic, and worked for the court of James II of England before becoming a freelance composer. The fact that Finger owned a copy of the musical score of the work Chelys by the Flemish composer Carolus Hacquart suggests that the two composers may have worked together in England.

After a contest in London to set William Congreve's The Judgement of Paris as an opera, in which Finger came in fourth place, he left England and moved to Germany. He died in Mannheim.