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Hermann Gustav Goetz (born Konigsberg, December 7, 1840, died Hottingen, December 3, 1876) was a German composer.
After studying in Berlin, he moved to Switzerland in 1863. After ten years spent as a critic, pianist and conductor as well, he spent the last three years of his life composing.
Goetz\'s compositions include a symphony, two piano concertos, a violin concerto in one movement, much piano music, a piano trio, piano quartet, piano quintet, and sonata for piano four-hands (two players). There are also two operas, Der Widerspenstigen Zahmung (based on Shakespeare\'s The Taming of the Shrew) and, much less successful, the three-act opera Francesca da Rimini, to a libretto by the composer and Joseph Victor Wildmann, based on Dante\'s Inferno (premiered at Mannheim, September 30, 1877).
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