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His piano concertos and last two symphonies opp.33–4 were compared favourably with similar works by Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven; the E Symphony, performed at the première of Beethoven’s ‘Eroica’, was judged the better of the two. When Eberl died, at the age of 41, the Allgemeine musikalische Zeitung remarked that the early death of an artist had seldom been so generally regretted as ... ................
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