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During his long, energetic life Ignaz Joseph Pleyel distinguished himself as a composer, publisher, and piano manufacturer. His distinctive musical language, combining Haydn's structural sophistication with the clarity, elegance, and lyricism of the Italian style he so admired, made him the most popular composer in Europe. Although many works eventually slipped into obscurity, successful revivals of his compositions in modern times have served to...
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Ferdinand Ries is a composer who is best known for writing a book about Beethoven; but during his lifetime Ries was regarded as one of the finest composers and piano virtuosi in Europe. Ries's father was one of Beethoven's most important teachers in Bonn, and Beethoven later gave Ries piano lessons in Vienna. Ries composed with great success in a range of genres, including several that Beethoven had made his own: the symphony, concerto, string quartet...
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