Franz Lachner (1803 - 1890)

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Franz Paul Lachner (2 April 1803 – 20 January 1890) was a German composer and conductor.

Lachner was a well-known and prolific composer in his day, though he is not now considered a major composer. His work, influenced by Ludwig van Beethoven and his friend Franz Schubert, is regarded as competent and craftsman-like, but is now generally little known. Among his greatest successes were his opera Catharina Cornaro (1841, preceding Donizetti by three years), his Requiem, and his seventh orches ... (Read all)
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