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Born May 11, 1895 • Mississippi
Died December 3, 1978 (aged 83) • Los Angeles • California

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British conductor
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Italian composer
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Aaron Copland
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Leonard Bernstein
American composer and conductor
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Russian composer
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Sergey Prokofiev
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Maurice Ravel
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Thea Musgrave
Thea Musgrave
British composer
Sir Richard Rodney Bennett
British composer
Arthur Honegger
Arthur Honegger
French composer
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Carlos Chávez
Mexican composer and conductor
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Gunther Schuller
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American composer
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Antal Dorati
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George Antheil
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French conductor
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Joseph Haydn
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Strozzi, Bernardo: portrait of Claudio Monteverdi
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