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
Fugue No. 15 from 36 Fugues of 1803 features six subjects developed simultaneously
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