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    Carl Heinrich Graun (7 May 1704 – 8 August 1759) was a German composer and tenor. Along with Johann Adolph Hasse, he is considered to be the most important...
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  • Graun may refer to: Graun im Vinschgau (Curon Venosta), a municipality in Italy Carl Heinrich Graun (1704–1759), a German composer Johann Gottlieb Graun...
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    graduation, Bach, armed with a recommendation by the Graun brothers (Johann Gottlieb and Carl Heinrich) and Sylvius Leopold Weiss, obtained an appointment...
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    seria in three acts by the German composer Carl Heinrich Graun. The libretto was written in French by Graun's patron, Frederick the Great, the King of Prussia...
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  • by Carl Heinrich Graun to a libretto by Johann Samuel Müller, premiered 1726, later performed 1735 at the Gänsemarkt opera Hamburg. It was Graun's first...
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    Cesare e Cleopatra (category Operas by Carl Heinrich Graun)
    Cesare e Cleopatra is a dramma per musica in three acts by composer Carl Heinrich Graun. The opera uses an Italian-language libretto by Giovan Gualberto...
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    music, and the court musicians he supported included C. P. E. Bach, Carl Heinrich Graun and Franz Benda. A meeting with Johann Sebastian Bach in 1747 in...
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  • Iphigenia in Aulis is a German opera by Carl Heinrich Graun to a libretto by Leopold Villati premiered 1728, then 1731 at the Gänsemarkt opera Hamburg...
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    Wagenseil, Johann Simon Mayr, Georg Matthias Monn, Johann Gottlieb Graun, Carl Heinrich Graun, Franz Benda, Georg Anton Benda, Johann Georg Albrechtsberger...
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    Edom kömmt is a pasticcio Passion oratorio based on compositions by Carl Heinrich Graun, Georg Philipp Telemann, Johann Sebastian Bach and others. The pasticcio...
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    Der Tod Jesu (category Compositions by Carl Heinrich Graun)
    is an oratorio libretto by Karl Wilhelm Ramler. In its setting by Carl Heinrich Graun in 1755, it was the most often performed Passion of the 18th century...
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  • Silla is an Italian-language opera in three acts by Carl Heinrich Graun to a libretto by Frederick II of Prussia, Frederick the Great, with Italian verses...
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    Traetta, Josef Mysliveček, Joseph Haydn, Johann Christian Bach, Carl Heinrich Graun, Antonio Salieri, Antonio Sacchini, Giuseppe Sarti, Niccolò Piccinni...
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    composer and also Frederick's sister (on her right, with a court lady) Carl Heinrich Graun, German composer and the court conductor (behind them) Countess Camas...
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  • Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel (1690–1749) Johann Christian Hertel (1697–1754) Johann Joachim Quantz (1697–1773) Johann Gottlieb Graun (1703–1771) Carl Heinrich Graun...
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  • Mary. Bach also knew a few passion-oratorios composed by Carl Heinrich Graun. He performed Graun's Ein Lämmlein geht und trägt die Schuld sometime in the...
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  • Seixas (1704–1742) Rosanna Scalfi Marcello (1704 or 1705–after 1742) Carl Heinrich Graun (1704–1759) Giovanni Battista Pescetti (c. 1704–c. 1766) František...
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  • settings of Heinrich Schütz, to the Passions of J. S. Bach, oratorio-passions such as Der Tod Jesu set by Telemann and Carl Heinrich Graun. After Telemann...
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  • – Gerard van Swieten, Dutch-Austrian physician (d. 1772) 1701 – Carl Heinrich Graun, German tenor and composer (d. 1759) 1711 – David Hume, Scottish...
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    his father's German ancestry, Nabokov was related to the composer Carl Heinrich Graun (1704–1759). Vladimir was the family's eldest and favorite child...
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    Scarlatti, Domenico Scarlatti Giacomo Carissimi, Georg Philipp Telemann, Carl Heinrich Graun, Leonardo Vinci, Jacobus Gallus, Francesco Antonio Urio, Reinhard...
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  • the court of Mannheim under the Electorship of Charles III Philip. Carl Heinrich Graun (1704–1759) was Kapellmeister starting in 1740 for Frederick the...
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  • Johann Gottlieb Graun (c. 1703–1771) Jean-Marie Leclair le cadet (the younger) (1703–1777) Carlo Zuccari (1703–1792) Carl Heinrich Graun (1704–1759) Giovanni...
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  • recently known under the title Montezuma) Montezuma (Graun), a 1755 opera by Carl Heinrich Graun Motezuma, a 1765 opera by Gian Francesco de Majo Motezuma...
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    Johann Sebastian Bach and his contemporaries Johann Friedrich Fasch, Carl Heinrich Graun, Handel, Johann Gottlieb Janitsch, Telemann and Vivaldi. The group...
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  • Gottlieb Graun (1702/1703 – 28 October 1771) was a German Baroque/Classical era composer and violinist, born in Wahrenbrück. His brother Carl Heinrich was...
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  • (revised by Domenico Scarlatti for performance at Naples). May 7 – Carl Heinrich Graun, composer and singer (died 1759) June 11 – Carlos Seixas, composer...
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    Barockorchester directed by Andrea Marcon, released by Decca label (2022) Carl Heinrich Graun: Silla (role of Postumio) with Bejun Mehta, Valer Sabadus, Hagen...
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    Adolph Hasse Carl Heinrich Graun Giovanni Battista Sammartini Baldassare Galuppi Bach's elder sons and pupils: Wilhelm Friedemann Bach Carl Philipp Emanuel...
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  • published in score (London: John Johnson); originally published 1732 Carl Heinrich Graun – Der Tod Jesu Leopold Mozart – Divertimento in F major "Musical...
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