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| | Barnes & Noble.com - Artist Bio |
 | | Young Albert's first love, however, was music, and he showed remarkable talent for it in his early childhood. |
 | | Over the next several years, the family moved to a number of locales: Bamberg (1813), Strasbourg (1814), Bonn (1817), and elsewhere. |
 | | Lortzing had already written several ambitious scores by 1817, including music for the Kotzebue play "Der Schutzgeist." In 1820, he wrote the "Andante maestoso con variazioni," for horn and orchestra. |
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