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Born July 8, 1604 • Saxony
Died October 6, 1651 (aged 47) • Prussia
Movement / Style Baroque music
Painting by Elias Gottlieb Hausmann of Johann Sebastian Bach wearing a dark coat with a white shirt and holding a sheet of music in his left hand.
Johann Sebastian Bach
German composer
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Benjamin Britten
British composer
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William Boyce
British composer
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Dietrich Buxtehude
Danish composer
Johannes Brahms
Johannes Brahms
German composer
Mendelssohn, Fanny
Fanny Mendelssohn
German musician and composer
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Hans Leo Hassler
German composer
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Johann Kuhnau
German 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
C.P.E. Bach
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
German composer
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Johann Jakob Froberger
German composer
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Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach
German composer
William Byrd
William Byrd
English composer
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Elisabeth-Claude Jacquet de la Guerre
French musician
Stevie Wonder smiling and wearing sunglasses and a dark jacket while performing outdoors.
Stevie Wonder
American singer, composer, and musician
Poulenc
Francis Poulenc
French composer
Blow, John
John Blow
English musician
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Orlando Gibbons
English composer
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Louis-Nicholas Clérambault
French musician
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Samuel Wesley
English composer