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Born December 23, 1689 • Thionville • France
Died October 28, 1755 (aged 65) • France
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Austrian composer
Austrian composer Arnold Schoenberg in a suit, seated at a piano and holding a conductor's baton, appears to be conducting music in a wood-paneled room.
Arnold Schoenberg
American composer
Elgar, Sir Edward
Sir Edward Elgar
English composer
Edgard Varèse
Edgard Varèse
American composer
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André Jolivet
French 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
Johannes Brahms
Johannes Brahms
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
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
Felix Mendelssohn
Felix Mendelssohn
German musician and composer
Antonio Vivaldi
Antonio Vivaldi
Italian composer
Béla Bartók
Béla Bartók
Hungarian 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
Portrait of Benjamin Britten, British composer, wearing a suit and patterned tie, looking toward the camera with a neutral expression.
Benjamin Britten
British composer
Nono
Luigi Nono
Italian composer
Ralph Vaughan Williams in 1957, wearing a dark suit and bow tie, with a serious expression and a brick wall in the background.
Ralph Vaughan Williams
English composer
Foss, 1969
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American composer
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Johann Hermann Schein
German composer
Quantz, Johann Joachim
Johann Joachim Quantz
German musician
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Johann Zumsteeg
German composer and conductor

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