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Alyabyev, Alexander Alexandrovich (1787–1851)| Russian composer. He was an army officer who fought as a hussar against Napoleon, and cultivated music as an amateur from 1823. |
Works Opera two operas after Shakespeare: Burya (The Tempest, 1835) and The Enchanted Night (A Midsummer Night's Dream, 1839). |
Song his song ‘The Nightingale’ was used by Patti and Viardot for the letter scene in Il barbiere di Siviglia. |
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