biography
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Graupner, Johann (Christian Gottlieb)
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| male
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| lived:
| (1767–1836)
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| biography:
| Musician and composer, born near Hanover, Germany. An oboist who had played under Haydn, he went to the USA in 1795. In Boston he opened a music store, published, taught, played, and composed. He founded the pioneering Boston Philharmonic Society (1810) and the still-extant Handel and Haydn Society (1815). He has been called ‘the father of American orchestral music’. |
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