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Joseph Haydn
Joseph Haydn
Austrian composer
Rabindranath Tagore
Rabindranath Tagore
Bengali poet
Ferenc Erkel
Hungarian composer
Johannes Ewald, engraving by Johan Frederik Clemens, 1779.
Johannes Ewald
Danish poet
Bjørnstjerne Martinius Bjørnson.
Bjørnstjerne Martinius Bjørnson
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Bankim Chandra Chatterjee
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Johan Ludvig Runeberg, detail of an engraving by Émile Lassalle.
Johan Ludvig Runeberg
Finnish-Swedish poet
Aram Khachaturian
Aram Khachaturian
Soviet Armenian composer
Dun Karm
Maltese poet
Becher, Johannes Robert
Johannes Robert Becher
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Nordraak, Rikard
Rikard Nordraak
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Ferenc Kölcsey
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Johan Nordahl Brun
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Johann Rudolf Wyss
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