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Johann Georg Albrechtsberger

Austrian composer

Ludwig van Beethoven

German composer

Johann Sebastian Bach

German composer

Richard Wagner

German composer

Johannes Brahms

German composer

George Frideric Handel

German-English composer

Felix Mendelssohn

German musician and composer

Robert Schumann

German composer

Carl Maria von Weber

German composer and musician

Paul Hindemith

German composer

Peter Cornelius

German composer and author

Moritz Hauptmann

German composer

Max Reger

German composer

Michael Praetorius

German musician

Johann Mattheson

German musician and writer

Martin Agricola

German composer

Johann Philipp Krieger

German composer

Johannes Crüger

German composer and music theorist

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Austrian composer

Giuseppe Verdi

Italian composer