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Born April 6, 1660 • Germany
Died June 5, 1722 (aged 62) • Leipzig • Germany
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
C.P.E. Bach
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
German composer
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Elisabeth-Claude Jacquet de la Guerre
French musician
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Antonio Soler
Spanish composer
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Louis-Nicholas Clérambault
French musician
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
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Johann Gottfried Walther
German composer
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Johann Jakob Froberger
German composer
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Heinrich Albert
German 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
Domenico Scarlatti, engraving.
Domenico Scarlatti
Italian composer
César Franck, detail of a portrait by J. Rongier; in a private collection.
César Franck
Belgian-French 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
Girolamo Frescobaldi
Girolamo Frescobaldi
Italian composer
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Francis Poulenc
French composer
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Antonio de Cabezón
Spanish composer
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Dietrich Buxtehude
Danish composer
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Orlando Gibbons
English composer
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John Bull
English composer
François Couperin
François Couperin
French composer [1668-1733]

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