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Georges Onslow
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Onslow riceived a nobleman's education, which included the study of music, travel, horsemanship and hunting. He spent his youth in London, where he studied the piano under Dussek and Cramer. In 1808, in Paris, he began studies in theory and composition with Reicha. In 1830 he was elected the second honorary member of the Philharmonic Society of London: Mendelssohn being the first in 1829. In 1842 he was elected to the chair of the Institute de France made vacant by the death of Cherubini: his rivals for election included Auber and Berlioz 
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| The orchestration of Onslow is conventionally good but he often repeats a
pattern monotonously.
But he was - in fact - the only French composer of his time to produce a substantial quantity of symphonic and chamber music.
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