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Also Known As Aleksandr Konstaninovich Glazunov
Born August 10, 1865 • St. Petersburg • Russia
Died March 21, 1936 (aged 70) • Paris • France
Notable Works “First Symphony”
Movement / Style nationalistic music • Russia

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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Russian composer
Portrait of composer Sergey Prokofiev, circa 1938, wearing round glasses, a suit, and a tie, looking slightly to the side.
Sergey Prokofiev
Russian composer
Dmitry Shostakovich sits at a desk by a window, looking at sheet music, wearing glasses and a suit, with papers and books arranged on the desk.
Dmitri Shostakovich
Russian composer
Mily Balakirev, portrait by Léon Bakst, c. 1900–10.
Mily Balakirev
Russian composer
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Aleksandr Borodin
Russian composer and scientist
Nikolay Tcherepnin.
Nikolay Tcherepnin
Russian composer
Béla Bartók
Béla Bartók
Hungarian composer
Igor Stravinsky
Igor Stravinsky
Russian composer
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Dmitry Kabalevsky
Russian composer
Ludwig van Beethoven
Ludwig van Beethoven
German composer
Johannes Brahms
Johannes Brahms
German composer
Austrian composer Arnold Schoenberg in a suit, seated at a piano and holding a conductor's baton, appears to be conducting music in a wood-paneled room.
Arnold Schoenberg
American composer
Maurice Ravel
Maurice Ravel
French composer
Luigi Boccherini
Luigi Boccherini
Italian composer
Saint-Saëns, Camille
Camille Saint-Saëns
French composer
Hans Werner Henze.
Hans Werner Henze
German composer
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Henri Sauguet
French composer
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Walter Piston
American composer
Portrait of Czech composer Antonin Dvorak with a beard, wearing a suit jacket, waistcoat, and bow tie.
Antonín Dvořák
Bohemian composer
Glière, Reinhold
Reinhold Glière
Soviet composer

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