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| | Johann Stamitz - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Johann Wenzel Anton Stamitz (Czech: Jan Václav Stamic) (June 19, 1717 – March 27, 1757) was a Czech composer and violinist. |
 | | Johann was the father of Carl Stamitz and Anton Stamitz, also composers. |
 | | Stamitz, generally regarded as the founder and most prominent member of the so-called Mannheim School of composers, wrote a number of concertos (mainly for violin or flute, but also for organ, violoncello, trumpet (called "clarino"), clarinet, viola and viola d'amore), a quantity of chamber music and a mass (1755). |
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