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Hector Berlioz
Hector Berlioz
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Franz Liszt
Franz Liszt
Hungarian composer
Claude Debussy
Claude Debussy
French composer
Maurice Ravel
Maurice Ravel
French composer
Bizet, Georges
Georges Bizet
French composer
César Franck, detail of a portrait by J. Rongier; in a private collection.
César Franck
Belgian-French composer
Gounod, Charles
Charles Gounod
French composer
Saint-Saëns, Camille
Camille Saint-Saëns
French composer
Gabriel Fauré
Gabriel Fauré
French composer
Roussel, pen drawing by A. Bilis, 1929; in the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris
Albert Roussel
French composer
Poulenc
Francis Poulenc
French composer
Darius Milhaud
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Meyerbeer, detail of a lithograph by Fritz Kriehuber, 1847
Giacomo Meyerbeer
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Massenet, Jules
Jules Massenet
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