• "Giovanni Henrico Albicastro", the Baroque composer of music in a Corellian manner, was actually Johann Heinrich von Weissenburg, a cavalry officer born in Bavaria?

Facts on topics related to Arcangelo Corelli

Georg Philipp Telemann

• Lorenz Christoph Mizler founded a musical society whose members included Georg Philipp Telemann, George Frideric Handel, and Johann Sebastian Bach?

Composer

• 17th-century Italian composer Filippo Acciaiuoli was also an inventor of machines used for theatrical effects in operas and plays?
• church music composer Geoffrey Shaw was the father of Sebastian Shaw, who played Anakin Skywalker in Return of the Jedi?
• Antonín Dvořák's Cello Concerto in b minor was considered so great that Johannes Brahms, the composer's mentor who had never written one himself, commented: "Why on earth didn't I know that one could write a cello concerto like this? If I had only known, I would have written one long ago!"?
• Australian composer Raymond Hanson, a teacher of music composition at the Sydney Conservatorium, was himself largely self-taught?
• Australian composer and ABC broadcaster William G. James dedicated his Six Australian Bush Songs to Dame Nellie Melba?
• composer Allyn Ferguson, co-creator of themes for Barney Miller and Charlie's Angels, was cited by Variety as being "among the most prolific composers of TV-movie scores in the past 40 years"?
• composer Takanori Arisawa won three JASRAC International Awards for most international royalties, due to the worldwide popularity of the Sailor Moon anime soundtrack?
• composer Tom Scott also had a career as a folk singer known as "The American Troubador"?
• composer William Turner was kicked out of the Chapel Royal choir when his voice broke?
• Czech composer Jan Rychlík played the drums in the jazz orchestra of Karel Vlach?