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George Frideric Handel
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Gioachino Rossini
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Antonio Sacchini
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Pietro Metastasio.
Pietro Metastasio
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Alessandro Scarlatti, detail of a portrait by an unknown artist, 1692; in the Palacio del Duque de Hijar, Epila, Spain
Alessandro Scarlatti
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Giovanni Battista Pergolesi
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Niccolò Jommelli
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Nicola Porpora
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Johann Adolph Hasse, engraving by J.F. Kauxe after a portrait by P. Rotari
Johann Adolph Hasse
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