Who was born first, Hector Berlioz or Gian Carlo Menotti?
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Hector Berlioz Louis-Hector Berlioz (] (English: ); 11 December 1803 – 8 March 1869) was a French Romantic composer, best known for his compositions "Symphonie fantastique" and "Grande messe des morts" (Requiem). Berlioz made significant contributions to the modern orchestra with his "Treatise on Instrumentation". He specified huge orchestral forces for some of his works, and conducted several concerts with more than 1,000 musicians. He also composed around 50 songs. His influence was critical for the further development of Romanticism, especially in composers like Richard Wagner, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Franz Liszt, Richard Strauss, and Gustav Mahler.
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Gian Carlo Menotti Gian Carlo Menotti (] ; July 7, 1911 – February 1, 2007) was an Italian-American composer and librettist. Although he often referred to himself as an American composer, he kept his Italian citizenship. He wrote the classic Christmas opera "Amahl and the Night Visitors", along with over two dozen other operas intended to appeal to popular taste.
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Luis Gianneo Luis Gianneo (1897–1968) was an Argentine composer, pianist and conductor. As music educator, he was the teacher of composers Ariel Ramirez, Juan Carlos Zorzi, Virtú Maragno, Pedro Ignacio Calderón and Rodolfo Arizaga, among others.
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Giovanni Battista Viotti Giovanni Battista Viotti (12 May 1755 – 3 March 1824) was an Italian violinist whose virtuosity was famed and whose work as a composer featured a prominent violin and an appealing lyrical tunefulness. He was also a director of French and Italian opera companies in Paris and London.
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Alberto Cortez Alberto Cortez (born José Alberto García Gallo, March 11, 1940) is an Argentine singer and songwriter. Cortez and his wife live in Madrid.
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Eugenio Cavallini Eugenio Cavallini (16 June 1806 — 11 April 1881) was an Italian conductor, composer, violinist, and violist. In 1833 he became first violinist of the orchestra at La Scala, a post he held through 1855. He also served as a conductor at La Scala, notably leading the world premieres of Gaetano Donizetti's "Lucrezia Borgia" (1833), Donizetti's "Gemma di Vergy" (1834), Donizetti's "Maria Stuarda" (1835), Saverio Mercadante's "Il giuramento" (1837), Mercadante's "Il bravo" (1839), Giuseppe Verdi's "Oberto" (1839), Verdi's "Un giorno di regno" (1840), Donizetti's "Maria Padilla" (1841), Verdi's "Nabucco" (1842), Verdi's "I Lombardi alla prima crociata" (1843), Verdi's "Giovanna d'Arco" (1845), Federico Ricci's "Estella di Murcia" (1846), and Domenico Ronzani's "Salvator Rosa" (1854).
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Héctor Marcó Héctor Marcó or stage name Hector Sunday Marcolongo (1906–1987) was an Argentine composer who focused mainly on the tango genre.
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Cholo Montironi Rodolfo Miguel Montironi (born December 4, 1931 in Rosario, Argentina) is an Argentine bandoneonist, conductor, composer and arranger who has been involved in many tango orchestras in addition to his own.
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Joseph d'Ortigue Joseph Louis d'Ortigue (22 May 1802 – 20 November 1866) was a French musicologist and critic. A specialist in liturgical music and a conservative Catholic of ultramontane and royalist leanings, he was a close friend of both Berlioz and Liszt. His most influential work was "Dictionnaire liturgique, historique, et theorique de plain-chant et le musique d'église", but he was also wrote for many of the most prominent periodicals of the day, including "Journal des débats" and "Le Ménestrel" where he was the editor-in-chief from 1863 until his sudden death at the age of 64.
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Les francs-juges Les francs-juges (translated as "The Free Judges" or "The Judges of the Secret Court") is the title of an unfinished opera by the French composer Hector Berlioz written to a libretto by his friend Humbert Ferrand in 1826. Berlioz abandoned the incomplete composition and destroyed most of the music. He retained the overture, which has become a popular concert item, and used some other musical material in later compositions.
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List of compositions and literary works by Hector Berlioz List of compositions and literary works by Hector Berlioz
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Alejandro Civilotti Alejandro Gabriel Civilotti Carvalho (born June 22, 1959, La Plata, Argentina). Argentine composer settled in Barcelona, Spain, considered one of the biggest names of his generation in the contemporary Spanish music scene-.
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Gianni Meccia Giovanni "Gianni" Meccia (born 2 June 1931, in Ferrara, Italy) is an Italian actor, composer, and singer. He is usually associated with Jimmy Fontana.
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Héctor García (guitarist) Hector Garcia (born Hector Antonio Garcia Hernandez, November 19, 1930) is a Cuban-American classical guitarist and composer.
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Prix de Rome cantatas (Berlioz) The French composer Hector Berlioz made four attempts at winning the Prix de Rome music prize, finally succeeding in 1830. As part of the competition, he had to write a cantata to a text set by the examiners. Berlioz's efforts to win the prize are described at length in his "Memoirs". He regarded it as the first stage in his struggle against the musical conservatism represented by the judges, who included established composers such as Luigi Cherubini, François-Adrien Boieldieu and Henri Montan Berton. Berlioz's stay in Italy as a result of winning the prize also had a great influence on later works such as "Benvenuto Cellini" and "Harold en Italie". The composer subsequently destroyed the scores of two cantatas ("Orphée" and "Sardanapale") almost completely and reused music from all four of them in later works. There was a revival of interest in the cantatas in the late 20th century, particularly "La mort de Cléopâtre", which has become a favourite showcase for the soprano and mezzo-soprano voice.
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Hèctor Parra Hèctor Parra i Esteve is a Spanish composer.
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Cesare Galeotti Cesare Galeotti (5 June 1872, Pietrasanta - 19 February 1929, Paris) was an Italian composer, conductor, and concert pianist. He is best known for his opera "Anton" which he conducted at its highly lauded premiere at La Scala on 17 February 1900. His other opera "Dorisse" premiered at La Monnaie in Brussels on 18 April 1910 under the baton of Sylvain Dupuis and with mezzo-soprano Claire Croiza performing as Alays. In addition to writing operas, he also composed a considerable amount of symphonic music.
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Gianni Marchetti Gianni Marchetti (Rome, 7 September 1933 – Rome, 11 April 2012) was an Italian composer songwriter. He collaborated with Piero Ciampi, lyricist Mogol, singer Bobby Solo and others. He also contributed to the soundtracks of around forty films.
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Julio César Brero Julio César Brero "(also spelled" Giulio Cesare; 20 December 1908 Milan – 8 December 1973 Milan) was an Italian-born Argentine composer, music educator, and lawyer.
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Federico Maria Sardelli Federico Maria Sardelli (born 1963) is an Italian conductor, historicist composer, musicologist, flautist, comics artist and satirist. He founded the medieval ensemble Modo Antiquo in 1984. In 1987 he founded the baroque orchestra Modo Antiquo. The orchestra made its debut with the first performance in modern times of Jean-Baptiste Lully's "Ballet des Saisons".
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The Hero (opera) The Hero is a two-act opera by Italian-American composer Gian Carlo Menotti. Commissioned by the Opera Company of Philadelphia, the work premiered at the Philadelphia Academy of Music on June 1, 1976. At this point of his career, Menotti's style of composition, which rejected the avant-garde, was out of favor with the classical music world. "Time" stated in its review of the opera, "Most of Menotti's music is passable Puccini: melodic, easy to take—and totally beside the point in 1976."
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George Besson George Besson (25 December 1882 – 19 June 1971) was a French art critic, and the founder and director of "Cahiers d'Aujourd'hui".