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Born	October 21, 1885 • Vienna • Austria
Died	November 9, 1974 (aged 89) • Oxford • England
Subjects Of Study	Byzantine art • music

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Russian composer

Sergey Prokofiev

Russian composer

Igor Stravinsky

Russian composer

Maurice Ravel

French composer

Aaron Copland

American composer

Francis Poulenc

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Sir Richard Rodney Bennett

British composer

Darius Milhaud

French composer

Henri Sauguet

French composer

Sir Eugene Goossens

British conductor

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Austrian composer

Joseph Haydn

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Claudio Monteverdi

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Hector Berlioz

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Béla Bartók

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Antonín Dvořák

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Dmitri Shostakovich

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Jean-Baptiste Lully

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Leonard Bernstein

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Gunther Schuller

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