Benjamin Godard
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French violinist and composer
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Benjamin Louis Paul Godard was a French violinist and Romantic-era composer of Jewish extraction, best known for his opera Jocelyn. Godard composed eight operas, five symphonies, two piano and two violin concertos, string quartets, sonatas for violin and piano, piano pieces and etudes, and more than a hundred songs. He died at the age of 45 in Cannes of tuberculosis and was buried in the family tomb in Taverny in the French department of Val-d'Oise.
