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    Otto Jahn (German: [jaːn]; 16 June 1813, in Kiel – 9 September 1869, in Göttingen), was a German archaeologist, philologist, and writer on art and music...
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  • biographer Otto Jahn gave an anecdote claiming that Beethoven had improvised before Mozart, and that the latter had been impressed. Jahn gives no evidence...
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  • 1943), American author and critic Molly Jahn, American plant scientist and food security policy advisor Otto Jahn (1813–1869), German archaeologist, philologist...
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    Viennese custom, at the St. Marx Cemetery outside the city on 7 December." Otto Jahn wrote in 1856 that Salieri, Süssmayr, van Swieten and two other musicians...
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    writing his catalogue Otto Jahn was making a comprehensive collection of Mozart works and writing a scholarly biography of Mozart. When Jahn learned of Köchel's...
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    by the veriest (sic) nobodies is tolerated." For Mozart's biographer Otto Jahn Lachnith's travesty was the "maddest chapter in the history of the Magic...
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    that too is consistent with Viennese burial customs at the time; later Otto Jahn (1856) wrote that Salieri, Süssmayr, van Swieten and two other musicians...
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    ought to have more respect for this excellent man" In a letter written to Otto Jahn of 30 October 1852, Liszt wrote: "In the twenties, when a great portion...
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    (Paris, 1605, enlarged edition by Johann Friedrich Dübner, Leipzig, 1833); Otto Jahn (with the scholia and valuable prolegomena, Leipzig, 1843); John Conington...
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    vestibule of the Queen's Staircase at Versailles. In 1843, the archaeologist Otto Jahn suggested that Aesop was the person depicted on a Greek red-figure cup...
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