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Also Known As Jean-Robert Planquette
Born July 31, 1848 • Paris • France
Died January 28, 1903 (aged 54) • Paris • France
Notable Works “Rip Van Winkle” • “The Chimes of Normandy”
Offenbach, Jacques
Jacques Offenbach
French composer
Pauline Viardot
French singer
Reynaldo Hahn
French composer
Charles Lecocq
French composer
André Messager.
André Messager
French composer
Straus, Oscar
Oscar Straus
Austrian composer
Giacomo Puccini
Giacomo Puccini
Italian composer
Mikhail Alekseyevich Kuzmin
Russian writer and composer
portrait of Arthur Sullivan by John Everett Millais
Arthur Sullivan
British composer
Kurt Weill
Kurt Weill
German-American composer
Emmerich Kálmán
Hungarian composer
John Philip Sousa.
John Philip Sousa
American composer
Strauss, Johann, the Younger
Johann Strauss II
Austrian composer
Detail of portrait of Charles Dibdin, oil on canvas, by Thomas Phillips, 1799; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
Charles Dibdin
British composer, author, actor and manager
Victor Herbert, 1906
Victor Herbert
American composer
Sigmund Romberg
American composer
Rudolf Friml, c. 1932
Rudolf Friml
American composer
Franz Lehár
Hungarian composer
De Koven, Reginald
Reginald De Koven
American composer
Franz von Suppé
Austrian composer