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Also Known As César Antonovich Cui
Born January 18, 1835 • Vilnius • Lithuania
Died March 24, 1918 (aged 83) • St. Petersburg • Russia
Movement / Style nationalistic music • The Five

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César Cui, drawing by I. Repin, 1900.
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Modest Mussorgsky, portrait by Ilya Repin, 1881; in the Gosudarstvennaya Tretyakovskaya Galereya, Moscow.
Modest Mussorgsky
Russian composer
Mily Balakirev, portrait by Léon Bakst, c. 1900–10.
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Portrait of Czech composer Antonin Dvorak with a beard, wearing a suit jacket, waistcoat, and bow tie.
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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
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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Russian composer
Sergey Rachmaninoff in profile, seated at a piano, playing with both hands on the keys.
Sergey Rachmaninoff
Russian musician
Anton Arensky.
Anton Arensky
Russian composer
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Dmitry Kabalevsky
Russian composer
Aleksandr Dargomyzhsky, oil painting by K.Y. Makovsky.
Aleksandr Dargomyzhsky
Russian composer
Nikolay Tcherepnin.
Nikolay Tcherepnin
Russian composer
George Gershwin
George Gershwin
American composer
Hector Berlioz
Hector Berlioz
French composer
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Carl Maria von Weber
German composer and musician
Bizet, Georges
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Portrait of Benjamin Britten, British composer, wearing a suit and patterned tie, looking toward the camera with a neutral expression.
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Gunther Schuller
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Paul Hindemith.
Paul Hindemith
German composer
Saint-Saëns, Camille
Camille Saint-Saëns
French composer
Emmanuel Chabrier
Emmanuel Chabrier
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