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| | classical music: ferdinand (contemporaries furtwangler opernarien) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02) |
 | | Not that it is unexpected for the time period--in fact one might expect the influence of Hummel to be heavy in piano concertos written in the first thirty or so years of the 19th century. |
 | | No, the surprise is that Ferdinand Ries, whom even his teacher, Beethoven, said sounded too much like him, here doesn't sound very much like old Ludwig. |
 | | Suppe's Light Calvary and Poet and Peasant Overtures were absolutely grand, as were Daniel-Francois Auber's Fra Diavolo, Herold's Zampa, Reznicek's Donna Diana, Offenbachs Orpheus in the Underworld, and the magnificent William Tell Overture by Rossini. |
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