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Also Known As Hugo David Weisgall
Born October 13, 1912 • Moravia
Died March 11, 1997 (aged 84) • New York
Notable Works “Esther” • “Purgatory” • “Six Characters in Search of an Author” • “The Stronger” • “The Tenor”
Igor Stravinsky
Igor Stravinsky
Russian composer
Aaron Copland
Aaron Copland
American composer
Sir Richard Rodney Bennett
British composer
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Russian composer
Sergey Prokofiev
Sergey Prokofiev
Russian composer
Béla Bartók
Béla Bartók
Hungarian composer
Maurice Ravel
Maurice Ravel
French composer
Hans Werner Henze.
Hans Werner Henze
German composer
Poulenc
Francis Poulenc
French composer
Darius Milhaud
French composer
Henri Sauguet
French composer
Lalo
Édouard Lalo
French composer
Sir Eugene Goossens
British conductor
Jean Françaix
French composer and musician
Egon Wellesz
Austrian composer and musicologist
Schuller, Gunther
Gunther Schuller
American composer
William Schuman
American composer
Still, William Grant
William Grant Still
American composer and conductor
Carlos Surinach
American composer
Walter Piston
American composer

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