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Born February 15, 1899 • France
Died July 24, 1983 (aged 84) • Paris • France
Movement / Style Les Six
Arthur Honegger
Arthur Honegger
French 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
Dukas
Paul Dukas
French composer
Poulenc
Francis Poulenc
French composer
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Darius Milhaud
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
Dmitry Shostakovich sits at a desk by a window, looking at sheet music, wearing glasses and a suit, with papers and books arranged on the desk.
Dmitri Shostakovich
Russian composer
Aaron Copland
Aaron Copland
American composer
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Alfred Schnittke
Russian composer
Aram Khachaturian
Aram Khachaturian
Soviet Armenian composer
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Sir Arthur Bliss
English composer
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George Antheil
American composer
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Alex North
American composer and conductor
Igor Stravinsky
Igor Stravinsky
Russian composer
Claude Debussy
Claude Debussy
French composer
Maurice Ravel
Maurice Ravel
French composer
Jean-Baptiste Lully, engraving by Geille after Johannot, c. 1830.
Jean-Baptiste Lully
French composer
Roussel, pen drawing by A. Bilis, 1929; in the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris
Albert Roussel
French composer
Léo Delibes
Léo Delibes
French composer
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Henri Sauguet
French composer