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Born July 3, 1854 • Bohemia
Died August 12, 1928 (aged 74) • Ostrava • Czechoslovakia
Notable Works chamber music
Movement / Style nationalistic music • Moravia • Czech
Subjects Of Study folk music

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Felix Mendelssohn
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Joseph Haydn
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Ludwig van Beethoven
German composer
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Austrian composer
Franz Schubert
Franz Schubert
Austrian composer
Johannes Brahms
Johannes Brahms
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Hector Berlioz
Hector Berlioz
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Sergey Prokofiev
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Gustav Mahler
Gustav Mahler
Austrian composer
Igor Stravinsky
Igor Stravinsky
Russian 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.
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Béla Bartók
Béla Bartók
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Maurice Ravel
Maurice Ravel
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Sergey Rachmaninoff in profile, seated at a piano, playing with both hands on the keys.
Sergey Rachmaninoff
Russian musician
Gabriel Fauré
Gabriel Fauré
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