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Born November 11, 1883 • Vevey • Switzerland
Died February 20, 1969 (aged 85) • Geneva • Switzerland
Founder Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
Igor Stravinsky
Igor Stravinsky
Russian composer
Thea Musgrave
Thea Musgrave
British composer
Still, William Grant
William Grant Still
American composer and conductor
Chávez, Carlos
Carlos Chávez
Mexican composer and conductor
Antal Dorati.
Antal Dorati
American conductor
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Sir Eugene Goossens
British conductor
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Pierre Monteux
French conductor
Casella, Alfredo
Alfredo Casella
Italian composer
Strozzi, Bernardo: portrait of Claudio Monteverdi
Claudio Monteverdi
Italian composer and musician
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
Claude Debussy
Claude Debussy
French composer
Béla Bartók
Béla Bartók
Hungarian composer
Maurice Ravel
Maurice Ravel
French composer
Aaron Copland
Aaron Copland
American composer
Portrait of French composer Erik Satie around 1915, showing him with a bald head, glasses, a full beard, and a suit with a striped tie.
Erik Satie
French composer
Roussel, pen drawing by A. Bilis, 1929; in the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris
Albert Roussel
French composer
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Sir Richard Rodney Bennett
British composer
Ottorino Respighi, 1935.
Ottorino Respighi
Italian composer
Dukas
Paul Dukas
French composer