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Born April 21, 1899 • New York City • New York
Died July 9, 1984 (aged 85) • Boston • Massachusetts
Notable Works “Alleluia”
Movement / Style Neoclassical art

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Sergey Prokofiev
Sergey Prokofiev
Russian composer
Arnold Schoenberg
Arnold Schoenberg
American composer
Leonard Bernstein
Leonard Bernstein
American composer and conductor
John Corigliano
John Corigliano
American composer
Carlos Surinach
American composer
George Whitefield Chadwick.
George Whitefield Chadwick
American composer
Igor Stravinsky
Igor Stravinsky
Russian composer
Walter Piston
American composer
Norman Dello Joio
American composer
Peter Mennin
American composer
Johannes Brahms
Johannes Brahms
German composer
Franz Liszt
Franz Liszt
Hungarian composer
Hector Berlioz
Hector Berlioz
French composer
Gustav Mahler
Gustav Mahler
Austrian composer
Felix Mendelssohn
Felix Mendelssohn
German musician and composer
Benjamin Britten
Benjamin Britten
British composer
Delius, drawing by Edmond X. Kapp, 1932
Frederick Delius
English composer
Sir Richard Rodney Bennett
British composer
Szymanowski, Karol
Karol Szymanowski
Polish composer
Alfred Schnittke
Russian composer

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