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Born July 24, 1880 • Geneva • Switzerland
Died July 15, 1959 (aged 78) • Portland • Oregon
Notable Works “Avodath Hakodesh” • “Quintet for Piano and Strings”
Movement / Style Neoclassical art

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Béla Bartók
Béla Bartók
Hungarian composer
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Russian composer
Sergey Prokofiev
Sergey Prokofiev
Russian composer
George Gershwin
George Gershwin
American composer
Arnold Schoenberg
Arnold Schoenberg
American composer
Zhou Long
Chinese American composer
Igor Stravinsky
Igor Stravinsky
Russian composer
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Austrian composer
Joseph Haydn
Joseph Haydn
Austrian composer
Johannes Brahms
Johannes Brahms
German composer
Felix Mendelssohn
Felix Mendelssohn
German musician and composer
Claude Debussy
Claude Debussy
French composer
Alban Berg
Austrian composer
Antonín Dvořák.
Antonín Dvořák
Bohemian composer
Maurice Ravel
Maurice Ravel
French composer
Luigi Boccherini
Luigi Boccherini
Italian composer
Smetana
Bedřich Smetana
Bohemian composer
Arthur Honegger
Arthur Honegger
French composer
Louis Spohr
German musician
John Adams
John Adams
American composer and conductor

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