1760. =Cherubini= (Florence), 1760-1842. Eminent composer in various styles. His string quartetts are noteworthy. 1763. =A. Gyrowetz= (Vienna), 1763-1850. A distinguished personality, and prolific composer of chamber music (sixty string quartetts, etc.), which was not, however, of an enduring character. 1764. =Regina Strinasacchi= (Ostiglia), 1764-1839. Noted lady violinist, for whom Mozart wrote the well-known violin and clavier sonata in B♭ (No. 454, Köchel). When first performed by her and the composer (in public), no clavier part had as yet been written, Mozart playing it from memory. 1765. =D. Steibelt= (Berlin), 1765-1823. Solo pianist, and composer of a great deal of chamber music which is now almost forgotten. As a performer he is said to have competed in public with Beethoven, and was popularly considered not inferior to that master. 1766. =Anton Eberl= (Vienna), 1766-1807. Pianist, composer of chamber music, and the friend of Mozart and Gluck. 1766. =Rudolph Kreutzer= (Versailles), 1766-1831. Beethoven dedicated to him the piano and violin Sonata op. 47. He was chamber musician to Napoleon and to Louis XVIII. The large quantity of chamber music which he wrote is now practically forgotten, but his forty violin studies are still highly esteemed. 1767. =Andreas Romberg= (Vechta), 1767-1821. Composer of distinction, if not of genius. He wrote many chamber music works. His son Bernard (’cellist) was also somewhat distinguished as a performer and composer. 1769. =J.F. Rochlitz= (Leipzig), 1769-1842. Literary musician, who edited the _Allgemeine Musikalische Zeitung_ during the period when Beethoven’s works began to appear. His discriminating and sympathetic notices were among the first to call world-wide attention to these works, and are indeed of much historic importance. 1769. =Martin Marin= (Bayonne), born 1769. Celebrated harpist, for which instrument he composed (and such works are rare) quintetts with strings and other chamber music, which M. Fétis says are “truly classical.” 1770. =Anton Reicha= (Prague), 1770-1836. Theorist and composer. Friend and associate of Albrechtsberger, Haydn, and Beethoven. He wrote many chamber music works. 1770. =Beethoven= (Bonn), 1770-1827. 1771. =P.M. Baillot= (Paris), 1771-1842. Celebrated violinist and teacher, who also wrote some chamber music. 1771. =J.B. Cramer= (Mannheim), 1771-1858. Pianist, composer, and teacher.