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Born March 2, 1905 • Philadelphia • Pennsylvania
Died January 22, 1964 (aged 58) • Fort-de-France • Martinique
Notable Works “The Cradle Will Rock”
Leonard Bernstein
Leonard Bernstein
American composer and conductor
Toch
Ernst Toch
Austrian composer
Aaron Copland
Aaron Copland
American composer
Marvin Hamlisch.
Marvin Hamlisch
American composer, pianist, and conductor
Schuller, Gunther
Gunther Schuller
American composer
Randy Newman
Randy Newman
American musician
Herbie Hancock.
Herbie Hancock
American musician
King of ragtime
Scott Joplin
American composer and musician
André Previn.
André Previn
American composer and musician
Easley Blackwood, Jr.
American composer
James P. Johnson
James P. Johnson
American composer and pianist
Burt Bacharach
American songwriter and pianist
Sergey Prokofiev
Sergey Prokofiev
Russian composer
Weber, Carl Maria von
Carl Maria von Weber
German composer and musician
Dmitri Shostakovich
Dmitri Shostakovich
Russian composer
Sergey Rachmaninoff
Sergey Rachmaninoff
Russian musician
Benjamin Britten
Benjamin Britten
British composer
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Ralph Vaughan Williams
British composer
Smetana
Bedřich Smetana
Bohemian composer
Poulenc
Francis Poulenc
French composer