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Also Known As Carl August Nielsen
Born June 9, 1865 • Denmark
Died October 3, 1931 (aged 66) • Copenhagen • Denmark
Notable Works “Symphony No. 4, Op. 29”
Joseph Haydn
Joseph Haydn
Austrian composer
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Russian composer
Johannes Brahms
Johannes Brahms
German composer
Igor Stravinsky
Igor Stravinsky
Russian composer
Felix Mendelssohn
Felix Mendelssohn
German musician and composer
Portrait of Czech composer Antonin Dvorak with a beard, wearing a suit jacket, waistcoat, and bow tie.
Antonín Dvořák
Bohemian composer
Sergey Rachmaninoff in profile, seated at a piano, playing with both hands on the keys.
Sergey Rachmaninoff
Russian musician
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Louis Spohr
German musician
Hector Berlioz
Hector Berlioz
French 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
Gustav Mahler
Gustav Mahler
Austrian composer
Richard Strauss
Richard Strauss
German composer
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Alban Berg
Austrian composer
Maurice Ravel
Maurice Ravel
French composer
Aaron Copland
Aaron Copland
American composer
Portrait of Benjamin Britten, British composer, wearing a suit and patterned tie, looking toward the camera with a neutral expression.
Benjamin Britten
British composer
Schuller, Gunther
Gunther Schuller
American composer
Ralph Vaughan Williams in 1957, wearing a dark suit and bow tie, with a serious expression and a brick wall in the background.
Ralph Vaughan Williams
English composer
Paul Hindemith.
Paul Hindemith
German composer
Foss, 1969
Lukas Foss
American composer

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