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Gioachino Rossini
Gioachino Rossini
Italian composer
Donizetti, Gaetano
Gaetano Donizetti
Italian opera composer
Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov, detail of a portrait by V.A. Serov; in the Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow.
Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov
Russian composer
Giovanni Battista Pergolesi
Italian composer
Piccinni, engraving by J.F. Schroter
Niccolò Piccinni
Italian composer
Galuppi, oil painting by an unknown artist
Baldassare Galuppi
Italian composer
Ferdinando Paer
Italian composer

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Young girl wearing a demin jacket playing the trumpet (child, musical instruments, Asian ethnicity)
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