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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Austrian composer
Franz Schubert
Franz Schubert
Austrian composer
Johannes Brahms
Johannes Brahms
German composer
Antonín Dvořák.
Antonín Dvořák
Bohemian composer
Dmitri Shostakovich
Dmitri Shostakovich
Russian composer
Luigi Boccherini
Luigi Boccherini
Italian composer
César Franck, detail of a portrait by J. Rongier; in a private collection.
César Franck
Belgian-French composer
Ernest Bloch.
Ernest Bloch
American composer
Vincent Persichetti
American composer

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