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Also Known As	Jacob Kirchmann • Jacob Kirckmann
Born	March 4, 1710 • France
Died	May 1792 (aged 82) • London • England

Dolmetsch, pen-and-ink drawing by Edmond X. Kapp, 1920; in a private collection

Arnold Dolmetsch

British musician

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John Broadwood

British piano maker

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François-Étienne Blanchet

French harpsichord maker

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Gottfried Silbermann

German instrument manufacturer

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Henry Willis

British organ maker

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Thurston Dart

British musician

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Robert Hope-Jones

British-American organ maker

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Rudolph Wurlitzer

American musical instrument maker

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Howard Eugene Wurlitzer

American musical instrument maker

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Farny Reginald Wurlitzer

American musical instrument maker

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Giuseppe Guarneri

Italian violin maker [1698-1745]

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Pietro Giovanni Guarneri

Italian violin maker

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Andrea Amati

Italian violin maker

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Nicolò Amati

Italian violin maker

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Austrian composer

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

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

Domenico Scarlatti, engraving.

Domenico Scarlatti

Italian composer

Jean-Philippe Rameau

Jean-Philippe Rameau

French composer

William Byrd

William Byrd

English composer