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Appearance: Sylvius Leopold Weiss

Weiss was a highly influential German composer and lutenist of the Baroque era. He was born in 1687 near Breslau and served at courts in Breslau, Rome, and Dresden. Weiss was one of the most prolific composers of lute music in history and was renowned as one of the best lutenists of his time. He taught Prince Lobkowicz and his wife and became friends with Bach, competing with him in improvisational performances. Weiss was a hugely important figure in lute composition.

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Appearance: Sylvius Leopold Weiss

Weiss was a highly influential German composer and lutenist of the Baroque era. He was born in 1687 near Breslau and served at courts in Breslau, Rome, and Dresden. Weiss was one of the most prolific composers of lute music in history and was renowned as one of the best lutenists of his time. He taught Prince Lobkowicz and his wife and became friends with Bach, competing with him in improvisational performances. Weiss was a hugely important figure in lute composition.

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eiss Schnee (pronounced Why-ss Sh-nee)[5] is one of the protagonists

of RWBY. She is a Huntress, a former student of the now-defunct Beacon


Academy, and former heiress of the Schnee Dust Company. Her weapon of
choice is a Multi-Action Dust Rapier (MADR) named Myrtenaster.

As the former heiress of the vastly influential Schnee Dust Company, Weiss
made her first appearance in the "White" Trailer. After enrolling in Beacon
against the wishes of her father, Jacques Schnee, she becomes a member
of Team RWBY alongside Ruby Rose, Blake Belladonna and Yang Xiao Long.
She is the younger sister of Winter Schnee and the older sister of Whitley
Schnee.

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Weiss is a pale-skinned young woman with pale blue eyes and long white
hair that is often pulled back into an off-center ponytail or braid on the right
side and pinned with a silver, icicle-shaped tiara. She stands at 5' 3" (1.6
meters) in heels, and has a scar which runs vertically down her left eye and
face, gained during her battle against an Arma Gigas in the "White" Trailer.

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Sylvius Leopold Weiss.
Sylvius Leopold Weiss (12 October 1687 – 16 October 1750) was a German composer and lutenist.

Born in Grottkau near Breslau, the son of Johann Jacob Weiss, also a lutenist, he served at courts in
Breslau, Rome, and Dresden, where he died. Until recently[when?], he was thought to have been born in
1686, but recent evidence suggests that he was in fact born the following year.[1]
Weiss was one of the most important and most prolific composers of lute music in history and one of
the best-known and most technically accomplished lutenists of his day. He was a teacher to Philip
Hyacinth, 4th Prince Lobkowicz, and the prince's second wife Anna Wilhelmina Althan.

In later life, Weiss became a friend of Wilhelm Friedemann Bach and met J.S. Bach through him. Bach
and Weiss were said to have competed in improvisation, as the following account by Johann Friedrich
Reichardt describes:

"Anyone who knows how difficult it is to play harmonic modulations and good counterpoint on the lute
will be surprised and full of disbelief to hear from eyewitnesses that Weiss, the great lutenist,
challenged J.S. Bach, the great harpsichordist and organist, at playing fantasies and fugues."

Sylvius Weiss's son Johann Adolph Faustinus Weiss succeeded him as a Saxon court lutenist.

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