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Name Dates Age Cause of Death

LEOPOLD DAMROSCH
= GERMAN =
= Conductor =
Born:
22 October 1832
Posen (Poznan), Kingdom of Prussia, GERMANY
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Died:
15 February 1885
New York City, New York, USA
52  

FRANZ WILHELM ABT
= GERMAN =
= Composer =
Born:
22 December 1819
Eilenburg in Prussian Saxony, GERMANY
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Died:
31 March 1885
Wiesbaden, GERMANY
65  

ADOLPHE BLANC
= FRENCH =
= Composer =
Born:
24 June 1828
Manosque, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, FRANCE
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Died:
May 1885
Paris, FRANCE
56  

HENRY BRINLEY RICHARDS
= WELSH =
= Composer =
Born:
13 November 1817
Carmarthen, WALES
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Died:
1 May 1885
Kensington, London, ENGLAND
67  

FERDINAND HILLER
= GERMAN =
= Composer, Conductor and Pianist =
Born:
24 October 1811
Frankfurt am Main, GERMANY
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Died:
11 May 1885
73  
SAMUEL C. UPHAM
= AMERICAN =
= Lyricist =
Born: SANUEL CURTIS UPHAM
2 February 1819
Montpelier, Vermont, USA
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Died:
29 June 1885
66 Stomach Cancer

AUGUST GOTTFRIED RITTER
= GERMAN =
= Organist and Composer =
Born:
25 August 1811
GERMANY
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Died:
26 August 1885
74  

FRIEDRICH KIEL
= GERMAN =
= Composer =
Born:
8 October 1821
Bad Laasphe, Puderbach, GERMANY
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Died:
14 September 1885
Berlin, GERMANY
63 A Traffic Accident

JULIUS ZAREBSKI
= POLISH =
= Pianist and Composer =
Born:
3 March 1854
Zhytomyr, UKRAINE
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Died:
15 September 1885
Zhytomyr, UKRAINE
31  

MICHELE NOVARO
= ITALIAN =
= Songwriter =
Born:
23 October 1818
Genoa, ITALY
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Died:
21 October 1885
66  
HENRY AUGUSTUS RAWES
= ENGLISH =
= Hymn-Writer =
Born:
1826
Easington, near Durham, ENGLAND
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Died:
1885
Brighton, ENGLAND
59  
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