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Also Known As Hugo Philipp Jakob Wolf
Born March 13, 1860 • Slovenia
Died February 22, 1903 (aged 42) • Vienna • Austria
Notable Works “Spanisches Liederbuch”

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Robert Schumann
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Peter Cornelius, engraving by Franz de Rohden, 1846
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Gustav Mahler
Gustav Mahler
Austrian composer
Johannes Brahms
Johannes Brahms
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Hector Berlioz
Hector Berlioz
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Felix Mendelssohn
Felix Mendelssohn
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Weber, Carl Maria von
Carl Maria von Weber
German composer and musician
Antonín Dvořák.
Antonín Dvořák
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Modest Mussorgsky, portrait by Ilya Repin, 1881; in the Gosudarstvennaya Tretyakovskaya Galereya, Moscow.
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Maurice Ravel
Maurice Ravel
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Benjamin Britten
Benjamin Britten
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Elliott Carter
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Ralph Vaughan Williams
Ralph Vaughan Williams
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Paul Hindemith.
Paul Hindemith
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Edvard Grieg.
Edvard Grieg
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Gabriel Fauré
Gabriel Fauré
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Leoš Janáček
Leoš Janáček
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Dukas
Paul Dukas
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Gian Francesco Malipiero
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