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Carl Otto Ehrenfried Nicolai (9 June 1810 – 11 May 1849) was a German composer, conductor, and one of the founders of the Vienna Philharmonic. Nicolai is best known for his operatic version of Shakespeare's comedy The Merry Wives of Windsor as Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor. In addition to five operas, Nicolai composed lieder, works for orchestra, chorus, ensemble, and solo instruments.[1]

  1. ^ Chisholm 1911, p. 662.

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Chronological list of German classical composers

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Il templario

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composer Otto Nicolai from a libretto written by Girolamo Maria Marini [it] based on Walter Scott's 1819 novel Ivanhoe. It has been noted that Nicolai's work...

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Overture

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Giuseppe Verdi

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Die Heimkehr des Verbannten

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Berlin State Opera

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composers such as the Dane Niels Wilhelm Gade. In opera, the operas of Otto Nicolai and Friedrich von Flotow still dominated in Germany when Richard Wagner...

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Ivanhoe

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Sari (Ivanhoé), Bartolomeo Pisani (Rebecca), A. Castagnier (Rébecca), Otto Nicolai (Il Templario), and Heinrich Marschner (Der Templer und die Jüdin). Rossini's...

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Carl Friedrich Zelter

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Transcriptions by Franz Liszt

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de Lassus S.669c: Giuseppe Baini S.673: Johann Sebastian Bach S.675: Otto Nicolai S.675a: Alexander Ritter S.675c: Giuseppe Verdi S.676: Richard Wagner...

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Vienna Philharmonic

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The Merry Wives of Windsor

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June 9

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1849 in music

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Walzer, Op. 64 D'Woaldbuama, Op. 66 Giacomo Meyerbeer – Le prophète Otto Nicolai – The Merry Wives of Windsor Lauro Rossi – Il domino nero Ambrose Thomas...

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Psalm 97

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other Protestant liturgies. It has often been set to music, notably by Otto Nicolai as a German motet, and by Antonín Dvořák, who set it in Czech in his...

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Christoph Friedrich Nicolai

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List of German composers

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Culture of Austria

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Architectural Association School of Architecture

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