"François-Joseph Fétis (French: [fetis]; 25 March 1784 – 26 March 1871) was a Belgian musicologist, composer, teacher, and one of the most influential music critics of the ...
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19th century. His enormous compilation of biographical data in the Biographie universelle des musiciens remains an important source of information today." - (en.wikipedia.org 04.11.2019)