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Simon Mayr

The German-born Simon Mayr, beneath the name Giovanni Simone Mayer, became the primary opera composer in Italy in the generation right before the rise of Rossini. He was an easy developer with age ten could play the key pad sonatas of C.P.E. Bach and Schobert, having been trained by his …

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