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Born	August 23, 1905 • London • England
Died	August 21, 1951 (aged 45) • London • England
Subjects Of Study	music

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Sir Eugene Goossens

British conductor

Thea Musgrave

Thea Musgrave

British composer

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Sir Richard Rodney Bennett

British composer

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Sir Arthur Bliss

English composer

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Sir Arnold Bax

British author and composer

Strozzi, Bernardo: portrait of Claudio Monteverdi

Claudio Monteverdi

Italian composer and musician

Igor Stravinsky

Igor Stravinsky

Russian composer

Still, William Grant

William Grant Still

American composer and conductor

Chávez, Carlos

Carlos Chávez

Mexican composer and conductor

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Reynaldo Hahn

French composer

Casella, Alfredo

Alfredo Casella

Italian composer

Nikolay Tcherepnin.

Nikolay Tcherepnin

Russian composer

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Egon Wellesz

Austrian composer and musicologist

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Alex North

American composer and conductor

Portrait of Benjamin Britten, British composer, wearing a suit and patterned tie, looking toward the camera with a neutral expression.

Benjamin Britten

British composer

portrait of Arthur Sullivan by John Everett Millais

Arthur Sullivan

British composer

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Christopher Wheeldon

British-born dancer and choreographer

John Barry, wearing a tuxedo and glasses, smiles while holding his Academy Award for Best Original Score, standing in front of a large Oscar statue.

John Barry

British composer and conductor

Frederick Ashton (left) and Robert Helpmann rehearsing their roles as the Ugly Sisters in Cinderella, 1965.

Sir Frederick Ashton

British choreographer

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Sir William Sterndale Bennett

British conductor