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Born December 18, 1931 • Osogbo • Nigeria
Died March 11, 1978 (aged 46) • Osogbo • Nigeria
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Hubert Ogunde
Nigerian playwright, actor, and musician
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Kola Ogunmola
Nigerian dramatist
Ludwig van Beethoven
Ludwig van Beethoven
German composer
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Austrian composer
Giuseppe Verdi
Giuseppe Verdi
Italian composer
Joseph Haydn
Joseph Haydn
Austrian composer
Richard Wagner
Richard Wagner
German composer
George Gershwin
George Gershwin
American composer
Strozzi, Bernardo: portrait of Claudio Monteverdi
Claudio Monteverdi
Italian composer and musician
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Russian composer
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
Gluck
Christoph Willibald Gluck
German composer
Gustav Mahler
Gustav Mahler
Austrian composer
Igor Stravinsky
Igor Stravinsky
Russian composer
Oil portrait of composer Georg Frideric Handel by Thomas Hudson, showing Handel in a red coat with gold trim, white wig, and holding a sheet of music.
George Frideric Handel
German-English composer
Richard Strauss
Richard Strauss
German composer
Felix Mendelssohn
Felix Mendelssohn
German musician and composer
Gioachino Rossini
Gioachino Rossini
Italian 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