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Baptized March 31, 1656 • Paris • France
Died August 15, 1728 • Paris • France
Movement / Style Baroque music
Hector Berlioz
Hector Berlioz
French composer
Dukas
Paul Dukas
French composer
Purcell, Henry
Henry Purcell
English composer
François Couperin
François Couperin
French composer [1668-1733]
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
Antonio Vivaldi
Antonio Vivaldi
Italian composer
Jean-Philippe Rameau
Jean-Philippe Rameau
French composer
Jean-Baptiste Lully, engraving by Geille after Johannot, c. 1830.
Jean-Baptiste Lully
French composer
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Marc-Antoine Charpentier
French composer
Ludwig van Beethoven
Ludwig van Beethoven
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
Richard Strauss
Richard Strauss
German 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
Weber, Carl Maria von
Carl Maria von Weber
German composer and musician
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Giovanni Legrenzi
Italian 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
Strozzi, Bernardo: portrait of Claudio Monteverdi
Claudio Monteverdi
Italian composer and musician
Domenico Scarlatti, engraving.
Domenico Scarlatti
Italian composer
Telemann, Georg Philipp
Georg Philipp Telemann
German composer
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Francesca Caccini
Italian composer and singer