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Giuseppe Gazzaniga & this composer based their "Don Giovanni" operas on the same libretto
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
In 1802 he wrote that "Anyone standing beside me could hear at a distance a flute that I could not hear"
Ludwig van Beethoven
In 1862 this "Lullaby" composer was rejected for a post as conductor in his native Hamburg
Johannes Brahms
Known in his time as a plagiarist, he composed the "Messiah"
George Frideric Handel
As choir director for St. Thomas Church in Leipzig, he wrote 6 cantatas known as the "Christmas Oratorio"
Johann Sebastian Bach