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Born July 14, 1882 • Latvia
Died August 14, 1938 (aged 56) • Johannesburg • South Africa
Subjects Of Study cantillation • plainsong • sacred music
Hector Berlioz
Hector Berlioz
French composer
Weber, Carl Maria von
Carl Maria von Weber
German composer and musician
Béla Bartók
Béla Bartók
Hungarian composer
Jean-Philippe Rameau
Jean-Philippe Rameau
French composer
Schuller, Gunther
Gunther Schuller
American composer
Heinrich Schütz
Heinrich Schütz
German composer
Paul Hindemith.
Paul Hindemith
German composer
Saint-Saëns, Camille
Camille Saint-Saëns
French composer
Ernest Bloch.
Ernest Bloch
American composer
César Cui, drawing by I. Repin, 1900.
César Cui
Russian composer
Zoltán Kodály, 1960.
Zoltán Kodály
Hungarian composer
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Felipe Pedrell
Spanish composer
Peter Cornelius, engraving by Franz de Rohden, 1846
Peter Cornelius
German composer and author
Komitas
Komitas
Armenian composer
Mattheson, detail of an engraving by J.J. Haid after a painting by J.S. Wahl
Johann Mattheson
German musician and writer
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Giovanni Carlo Maria Clari
Italian composer
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Egon Wellesz
Austrian composer and musicologist
Seyfried, Ignaz Xaver, Ritter von
Ignaz Xaver, Ritter von Seyfried
Austrian musician and composer
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Louis Lewandowski
Polish composer
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Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco
Italian composer

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