Anton Reicha
Anton Reicha (born 26 February 1770; died 28 May 1836) was a Czech-born composer who became naturalized French. He was a lifelong friend of Beethoven. Reicha is now best remembered for the large number of quintets that he wrote for wind instruments, and for his work as a music teacher. Franz Liszt and Hector Berlioz were both pupils of Reicha. Reicha wrote several books about music theory and composition.
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Czech musicologist and composer Anton Reicha (1770-1836) by C. Constans (17..18..) after Counis (17..-18..).
Anton Reicha's gravestone at Père Lachaise, Paris
The final piano exercise of Reicha's Op. 30, featuring two staves of music for each hand, and four different clefs
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Fugue No. 15 from 36 Fugues of 1803 features six subjects developed simultaneously