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a composer and violinist. Kammel was born at Belec, now in the Czech Republic. He was part of the social circle of the leading 18th century London concert impresarios, Johann Christian Bach and Carl Friedrich Abel. He also performed at provincial musical festivals, leading the orchestra at Salisbury in 1771. He died in London in 1784/5.
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Antonin Kammel1730, Apr 211750
 
17791784/5, Oct 5

Francesco Durante16841725
 
17551755
 a Neapolitan composer. A complete collection of Durante's works, consisting almost exclusively of...
Charles Dolleunknown1735
 
17551755 ca
 a French viol player and composer. Very little is known about his life. He was active in Paris an...
Mlle Guerin1739 ca1755
 
 
1755unknown
 a French composer. She composed an opera at age 16, titled Daphnis et Amalthée which was perform...
Mme Papavoine1735 ca1755
 
 
17551761
 a French composer. She married violinist Louis-August Papavoine some time before 1755. Nothing el...
Richard Mudge17181741
 
17571763, Apr
 an English clergyman and composer of the late baroque period. Mudge became curate of the villages...
Manuel Jose de Quirosunknown1730
 
17601765
 an 18th-century Guatemalan composer. Quirós is the first musician in the New World to receive a ...
Giovanni Giorgiunknown1719
 
17621762
 a priest and an Italian composer. His style of polychoral church compositions are influenced by e...
Francesco Araja1709, Jun 251729
 
17651768 ca
 an Italian composer who spent 25 years in Russia and wrote at least 14 operas for the Russian Imp...
Elisabeth de Haulteterre1720 ca1737
 
17681768
 a French composer and violinist. Despite the similarity of the name, she did not come from La Cou...
Johann Joachim Quantz1697, Jan 301716
 
17691773, Jul 12
 a German flutist, flute maker and composer. He composed hundreds of flute sonatas and concertos, ...
Jan Zach1699, Nov1724
 
17721773, May 24
 a Czech composer, violinist and organist. Although he was a gifted and versatile composer capable...
Johann Peter Kellner1705, Sep 281725
 
17721772, Apr 19
 a German organist and composer. He was the father of Johann Christoph Kellner. He was appointed c...
Giovanni Cifolelli1750s ca1764
 
 
1775unknown
 an Italian mandolin virtuoso and dramatic composer whose date and place of birth are unknown. In ...
Jean-Jacques Rousseau1712, Jun 281739
 
17761778, Jul 2
 a philosopher, writer, and composer of the 18th century. His political philosophy influenced the ...
Francesco Uttini17231743
 
17761795, Oct 25
 an Italian composer and conductor who was active mostly in Sweden. an Italian composer and conduc...
Marie Emmanuelle Bayon Louis17461760
 
17791825, Mar 29
 a French composer, pianist, and salonnière. Very little is known for certain about her life. The...
Constantin Christian Dedekind1628, Apr 21652
 
1781715
 a German poet, dramatist, librettist, composer and bass singer of the Baroque era. His 1657 songb...
Vincenta Da Ponteunknown1770
 
1780s 9unknown
 an Italian composer, singer and instrumentalist. As a composer, Da Ponte is known only from an un...
Vincenta Da Ponteunknown1770
 
1780s 9unknown
 an Italian composer, singer and instrumentalist. She was a member of the coro, or music school, o...
James Nares1715, Apr 191734
 
17811783, Feb 10
 an English composer of mostly sacred vocal works, though he also composed for the harpsichord and...
Johann Philipp Kirnberger1721, Apr 241741
 
17831783, Jul 27
 a musician, composer (primarily of fugues), and music theorist. Kirnberger played a significant r...
Michel Yost17541770
 
17861786, Jul 5
 a famous French clarinetist and cofounder of the French clarinet school. He was a brilliant instr...
Christian Gottlob Neefe17481760
 
17891798
 a German opera composer and conductor. He studied law at Leipzig University, but subsequently ret...
Maddalena Laura Sirmen1745, Dec 91766
 
17891818, May 18
 an Italian composer, violinist, and later unsuccessful singer. In 1771, she debuted her "Concerto...
Francis Hopkinson1737, Sep 211761
 
17911791, May 9
 designed the first official American flag. He was an author, a composer, and one of the signers o...
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart1756, Jan 271761
 
17911791, Dec 5
 a prolific and influential composer of the Classical era, born in Salzburg. Mozart showed prodigi...
Carl Michael Bellman1740, Feb 41768
 
17911795, Feb 11
 a Swedish songwriter, composer, musician, poet and entertainer. He is a central figure in the Swe...
Carlo Zuccari1704, Nov 101720
 
17921792, May 3
 an Italian composer and violinist of the late Baroque and early classical; he worked mainly in Mi...
Claude Balbastre1724, Dec 81750
 
17921799, May 9
 a French composer, organist, harpsichordist and fortepianist. He was one of the most famous music...
Benjamin Cooke1734, Nov 281743
 
17931793, Sep 14
 an English composer, organist and teacher. He was the organist at Westminster Abbey, master of th...
William Billings1746, Oct 71770
 
17941800, Sep 26
  regarded as the first American choral composer. He possibly received musical instruction from Jo...
Polly Young17491755
 
17951799
 an English soprano, composer and keyboard player. Following her marriage, Young mostly appeared i...
Justin Morgan1747, Feb 281771
 
17981798, Mar 22
 a U.S. horse breeder and composer. Morgan was a composer, best known for his hymns and fuguing tu...
Joseph Haydn1732, Mar 311739
 
18031809, May 31
 a prominent and prolific Austrian composer of the Classical period. He was instrumental in the de...
Andre Ernest Modeste Gretry17411759
 
18031813
 a composer from the Prince-Bishopric of Liège (present-day Belgium), who worked from 1767 onward...
Johann Christoph Kellner1736, Aug 151762
 
18031803
 a German organist and composer, the son of Johann Peter Kellner. He wrote a treatise on music the...
Joseph Abaco1710, Mar 271729
 
18051805, Aug 31
 an Italian violoncellist and composer. He wrote nearly 40 cello sonatas, the Capricci for Violonc...
Madame Ravissaunknown1778
 
18071807
 an Italian singer and composer. She was from Turin, but apparently lived in Paris from 1778 until...
Joseph Quesnel1746, Nov 151766
 
18091809, Jul 2/3
 a French Canadian composer, poet, and playwright. Among his works were two operas, Colas et Co...
John Antes1740, Mar 241769
 
18091811, Dec 17
 the first American Moravian Missionary to travel and work in Egypt, one of the earliest American-...
Jean-Baptiste Davaux1742, Jul 191760
 
18161822, Feb 2
 a French violinist and composer. He started playing the violin and the mandolin. In 1767 Davaux w...
William Herschel1738, Nov 151774
 
18201822, Aug 25
 a German-born British astronomer, composer, and brother of Caroline Herschel. His interest in ast...
Ludwig van Beethoven1770, Dec1778
 
18261827, Mar 26
 a German composer and pianist. A crucial figure in the transition between the Classical and Roman...
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