François-Joseph Fétis
1784
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1871
photo credits: Wikimedia Commons
genre: opera
country of citizenship: Belgium
native language: French
languages spoken, written or signed: French
educated at: Conservatoire de Paris
occupation: composer, librarian, musicologist, pedagogue, conductor, music teacher, music theorist, music critic, music historian, university teacher, writer, court chapel master
award received: Prix de Rome
student of: François Adrien Boieldieu, Jean-Baptiste Rey
François-Joseph Fétis (French: [fetis]; 25 March 1784 – 26 March 1871) was a Belgian musicologist, critic, teacher and composer. He was among the most influential music intellectuals in continental Europe. His enormous compilation of biographical data in the Biographie universelle des musiciens remains an important source of information today. Source: Wikipedia (en)
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