biography
| name: |
Nicolai, (Carl) Otto (Ehrenfried)
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pronunciation:
[nikoliy]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1810–49)
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| biography:
| Composer, born in Königsberg, Prussia (now Kaliningrad, Russia). He studied in Berlin and Rome, becoming court conductor in Vienna (1841) and conductor of the Berlin Opera (1847). His opera The Merry Wives of Windsor was produced just before he died. |
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