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Jacob Sarratt

borndied
17721819, Nov 6
one of the top English chess players of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Sarratt was renowned as a player and author and adopted the title "Professor of Chess". He was the first professional player to teach chess in England. He introduced into England the chess rule that a stalemate is a draw, which was commonly used on the continent of Europe. He coi...
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John Sheppard

borndied
1515 ca1559
an English singer and composer. Sheppard wrote a large body of polyphony for the Sarum Office. Sheppard also composed alternatim hymns, with the even-numbered verses sung to polyphony with chant cantus firmus and the odd-numbered verses left to be chanted. Sheppard's music for the new Protestant rite, which has suffered seriously from the loss of manuscript ...
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Maddalena Laura Sirmen

bornactivedied
1745, Dec 91766-1780s1818, May 18
an Italian composer, violinist, and later unsuccessful singer. In 1771, she debuted her "Concerto on the Violin" in London, met by rave reviews and lavish support. Her compositions displayed the violin in all its virtuosic brilliance in the dynamic yet restrained early Classical tradition. Although her career withered and faded in its final years, she is rem...
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Harriet Smithson

aka: Henrietta Constance Smithson,Harriet Smithson Berlioz, Miss H.C. Smithson
borndied
1800, Mar 181854, Mar 3
a famous Shakespearean actress, who is best known as the first wife and muse of Hector Berlioz. On May 27, 1814, Smithson made her first stage appearance at the Theatre Royal (Dublin), as Albina Mandevill in Frederick Reynolds's The Will. Her performance was well...
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Jean-Pierre Solie

aka: Solié
borndied
17551812, Aug 6
a French cellist and operatic singer. He began as a tenor, but switched and became well known as a baritone. He sang most often at the Paris Opéra-Comique. He also became a prolific composer, writing primarily one-act comic operas.
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Will Sommers

aka: William, Somers
borndied
unknown1560, Jun 15
the best-known court jester of Henry VIII of England. Born in Shropshire, Sommers came to the attention of Richard Fermor, a merchant of the Staple at Calais, who brought him to Greenwich in 1525 to present to the King. Impressed by his sense of humor, Henry promptly offered Sommers a place at court. He was soon in high favor with the King, whose generosity ...
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Sophie Stebnowska

aka: Mariane Theresia Sophie Stebnowska, Maria Sofia Stempkosta
borndied
17531848, Feb 16
a Polish opera singer, actor and harpist. She was among the great talents of the Royal Swedish Opera in Stockholm during the reign of King Gustav III of Sweden. She was married to the opera singer Christoffer Christian Karsten and was also the maternal grandmother of the world-famous ballet dancer more
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Carl Stenborg

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1752, Sep 81813, Aug 1
a Swedish opera singer, composer and theatre director. He belonged to the pioneer generation of the Royal Swedish Opera and was regarded as one of the leading opera singers of the Gustavian era. He was a hovsångare and a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music. He received a good education, debuted as a concert singer in Riddarhuset in 1766 and was app...
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Barbara Strozzi

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1619, Aug 61677, Nov 11
an Italian Baroque singer and composer. Strozzi was said to be "the most prolific composer - man or woman - of printed secular vocal music in Venice in the Middle of the century." Her output is also unique in that it only contains secular vocal music, with the exception of one volume of sacred songs. She was renowned for her poetic ability as well as her com...
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