Cornelius, Peter
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Peter Cornelius was a German composer, writer about music, poet and translator. He was born in Mainz to Carl Joseph Gerhard (1793–1843) and Friederike (1789–1867), actors in Mainz and Wiesbaden. Cornelius played violin and composed lieder from an early age, studying with Tekla Griebel-Wandall and composition with Heinrich Esser in 1841. Cornelius lived with his painter uncle Peter von Cornelius in Berlin from 1844 to 1852, during which time he met prominent figures such as Alexander von Humboldt, the Brothers Grimm, Friedrich Rückertand Felix Mendelssohn. [source from Wikipedia]
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