Word: symphonist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...composer who has been popular in his lifetime often goes into eclipse after his death and never regains popularity. The history of music is full of examples: Joachim Raff, considered a great symphonist 100 years ago; Giacomo Meyerbeer, king of grand opera in the mid-19th century. The once esteemed Jean Sibelius, whose music fell into disfavor more than a decade before his death in 1957, is only now beginning to be reassessed...