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There is a misunderstanding that John Gay wrote an Opera called The Beggar's Opera. This is not the case. Gay was born in Barnstaple, Devon , England and was a poet, not a composer. The words to The Beggar's Opera were written by Gay but the music was by Pepusch ( a German composer )

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