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Also Known As Erkel Ferenc
Born November 7, 1810 • Gyula • Hungary
Died June 15, 1893 (aged 82) • Budapest • Hungary
Founder Budapest Academy of Music
Notable Works “Brankovics György” • “Dózsa György” • “Hunyadi László” • “Hymnusz” • “Ünnepi nyitány”
Joseph Haydn
Joseph Haydn
Austrian composer
Hector Berlioz
Hector Berlioz
French composer
Felix Mendelssohn
Felix Mendelssohn
German musician and composer
Richard Wagner
Richard Wagner
German composer
Strozzi, Bernardo: portrait of Claudio Monteverdi
Claudio Monteverdi
Italian composer and musician
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Russian composer
Johannes Brahms
Johannes Brahms
German composer
Gustav Mahler
Gustav Mahler
Austrian composer
Igor Stravinsky
Igor Stravinsky
Russian composer
George Frideric Handel
George Frideric Handel
German-English composer
Richard Strauss
Richard Strauss
German composer
Weber, Carl Maria von
Carl Maria von Weber
German composer and musician
Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov, detail of a portrait by V.A. Serov; in the Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow.
Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov
Russian composer
Telemann, Georg Philipp
Georg Philipp Telemann
German composer
Sergey Rachmaninoff
Sergey Rachmaninoff
Russian musician
Harry Lawrence Freeman
American composer and conductor
Benjamin Britten
Benjamin Britten
British composer
portrait of Arthur Sullivan by John Everett Millais
Arthur Sullivan
British composer
Kurt Weill
Kurt Weill
German-American composer
Leonard Bernstein
Leonard Bernstein
American composer and conductor