Peter Cornelius
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German composer
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Carl August Peter Cornelius was a German composer, writer about music, poet and translator. Life He was born in Mainz to Carl Joseph Gerhard and Friederike Cornelius, actors in Mainz and Wiesbaden. From an early age he played the violin and composed, eventually studying with Tekla Griebel-Wandall and composition with Heinrich Esser in 1841. He lived with his painter uncle Peter von Cornelius in Berlin from 1844 to 1852, and during this time he met prominent figures such as Alexander von Humboldt, the Brothers Grimm, Friedrich Rückert and Felix Mendelssohn.
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