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Also Known As Georg Anton Benda • Jiøí Antonín Benda
Baptized June 30, 1722 • Bohemia
Died November 6, 1795 • Saxony
Notable Works “Pygmalion”
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Austrian composer
Purcell, Henry
Henry Purcell
English composer
Portrait of Benjamin Britten, British composer, wearing a suit and patterned tie, looking toward the camera with a neutral expression.
Benjamin Britten
British composer
Kurt Weill
Kurt Weill
German-American composer
Ditters von Dittersdorf, Carl
Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf
Austrian composer and violinist
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Giovanni Battista Pergolesi
Italian composer
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Emil František Burian
Czech author and composer
Detail of portrait of Charles Dibdin, oil on canvas, by Thomas Phillips, 1799; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
Charles Dibdin
British composer, author, actor and manager
Orff, Carl
Carl Orff
German composer
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Emilio de’ Cavalieri
Italian composer
Portrait of Czech composer Antonin Dvorak with a beard, wearing a suit jacket, waistcoat, and bow tie.
Antonín Dvořák
Bohemian composer
Smetana
Bedřich Smetana
Bohemian composer
Ludwig van Beethoven
Ludwig van Beethoven
German 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
Bruce Springsteen plays an acoustic guitar and sings into a microphone on stage at the New York Film Festival Spotlight Gala.
Bruce Springsteen
American singer, songwriter, and bandleader
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Russian composer