Rare operas

Who composed this nowadays unsung works? (hint: few of the composers are very famous)

only the composer's surname is needed

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Hint	Answer
Cadmus et Hermione (1673)	Jean-Baptiste Lully
King Arthur (1691)	Henry Purcell
Zenobia (1694)	Tomaso Albinoni
Scanderbeg (1718)	Antonio Vivaldi
Radamisto (1720)	Georg Friedriech Händel
The Beggar's Opera (1728)	Johann Christian Pepusch
Germanico in Germania (1732)	Nicola Porpora
La finta semplice (1769)	Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
La clemenza di Scipione (1778)	Johann Christian Bach
Iphigénie in Tauride (1779)	Christoph Willibald Gluck
Il barbiere di Siviglia, ovvero La precauzione inutile (1782)	Giovanni Paisiello
La vanità delusa (1784)	Domenico Cimarosa
Les Danaïdes (1784)	Antonio Salieri
Ginevra di Scozia (1801)	Johann Simon Mayr
Torvaldo e Dorliska (1815)	Gioachino Rossini
Zoraida di Granata (1821-22)	Gaetano Donizetti
Alfonso und Estrella (1822-first repr. 1854)	Franz Schubert
Der Vampyr (1828)	Heinrich August Marschner
Die Feen (1833-f.r. 1888)	Richard Wagner
Stradella (1837)	Louis Niedermeyer
Elena da Feltre (1839)	Saverio Mercadante
Alessandro Stradella (1844)	Friedrich von Flotow
Alzira (1845)	Giuseppe Verdi
I promessi sposi (1856)	Amilcare Ponchielli
Salammbô (1863-66)	Modest Mussorgsky

Hint	Answer
Kamenny gost' (The Stone Guest) (1866-69)	Aleksandr Dargomyzhsky
Hamlet (1868)	Ambroise Thomas
Il Guarany (1870)	Antônio Carlos Gomes
Le Roi d'Ys (1875-1888)	Édouard Lalo
Der Zigeunerbaron (1885)	Johann Strauss II
Loreley (1886-87)	Alfredo Catalani
Jungfrun i tornet (1896)	Jean Sibelius
Sapho (1897)	Jules Massenet
La Bohéme (1897)	Ruggero Leoncavallo
Sadko (1898)	Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov
Maskarade (1904)	Carl Nielsen
La figlia di Iorio (1906)	Alberto Franchetti
La rondine (1917)	Giacomo Puccini
Abesalom da Eteri (1919)	Zacharia Paliashvili
I cavalieri di Ekebù (1925)	Riccardo Zandonai
Doktor Faust (1925)	Ferruccio Busoni
Oedipus Rex (1926-27)	Igor Stravinsky
Arabella (1933)	Richard Strauss
L'Aiglon (1937)	Arthur Honegger
Mathis der Maler (1938)	Paul Hindemith
The Tender Land (1952-54)	Aaron Copland
Troilus and Cressida (1954)	William Walton
Il cappello di paglia di Firenze (1955)	Nino Rota
La voix humaine (1959)	Francis Poulenc
Beatrix Cenci (1971)	Alberto Ginastera

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