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Also Known As Johann Christoph Pepusch
Born 1667 • Berlin • Germany
Died July 20, 1752 (aged 85) • London • England
Movement / Style Baroque music
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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William Boyce
British composer
Thomas Arne, engraving (1782) after an illustration by Francesco Bartolozzi.
Thomas Arne
British composer
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William Lawes
English composer
Henry Lawes, portrait by an unknown artist; in the collection of the Faculty of Music, Oxford
Henry Lawes
English 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
Sir Henry Rowley Bishop, detail of an oil painting by an unknown artist; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Sir Henry Rowley Bishop
English composer and conductor
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
Telemann, Georg Philipp
Georg Philipp Telemann
German composer
C.P.E. Bach
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
German composer
Heinrich Schütz
Heinrich Schütz
German composer
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Johann Christian Bach
German composer
Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, drawing by P. Gulle, 1783; in the Staatsbibliothek, Berlin
Wilhelm Friedemann Bach
German composer
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Georg Muffat
German composer
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Johann Jakob Froberger
German composer
Pachelbel's Canon
Johann Pachelbel
German composer
Quantz, Johann Joachim
Johann Joachim Quantz
German musician
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Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach
German composer
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Heinrich Albert
German composer
Carl Friedrich Abel, engraving by A. Saint-Aubin after a portrait by C.-N. Cochin, 1781
Carl Friedrich Abel
German composer