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Born August 23, 1900 • Vienna • Austria
Died December 23, 1991 (aged 91) • Palm Springs • California
Movement / Style Gebrauchsmusik
Arnold Schoenberg
Arnold Schoenberg
American composer
Igor Stravinsky
Igor Stravinsky
Russian composer
Hans Werner Henze.
Hans Werner Henze
German composer
Aaron Copland
Aaron Copland
American composer
Toch
Ernst Toch
Austrian composer
Sir Richard Rodney Bennett
British composer
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Austrian composer
Joseph Haydn
Joseph Haydn
Austrian composer
Alban Berg
Austrian composer
Schuller, Gunther
Gunther Schuller
American composer
Ludwig van Beethoven
Ludwig van Beethoven
German composer
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Russian composer
Sergey Prokofiev
Sergey Prokofiev
Russian composer
Felix Mendelssohn
Felix Mendelssohn
German musician and composer
Antonín Dvořák.
Antonín Dvořák
Bohemian composer
Dmitri Shostakovich
Dmitri Shostakovich
Russian composer
Maurice Ravel
Maurice Ravel
French composer
Sergey Rachmaninoff
Sergey Rachmaninoff
Russian musician
Benjamin Britten
Benjamin Britten
British composer
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Ralph Vaughan Williams
English composer

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