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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Austrian composer
Johannes Brahms
Johannes Brahms
German composer
Arnold Schoenberg
Arnold Schoenberg
American composer
Anton von Webern, 1940.
Anton Webern
Austrian composer
Pierre Boulez
Pierre Boulez
French composer and conductor
Charles Ives
American composer
Erik Satie
Erik Satie
French composer
Leonard Bernstein
Leonard Bernstein
American composer and conductor
Elgar, Sir Edward
Sir Edward Elgar
English composer
Nono
Luigi Nono
Italian composer
Sir Richard Rodney Bennett
British composer
Claude Le Jeune
French composer
Francis Pilkington
British composer
Alfred Schnittke
Russian composer
John Wilbye
English composer
Jacques Arcadelt
French composer
Johann Hermann Schein
German composer
Sir Lennox Berkeley, 1988.
Sir Lennox Berkeley
British composer
Sir Andrzej Panufnik
British composer and conductor
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