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Born March 22, 1727 • Scotland
Died March 1, 1807 (aged 79) • Scotland
Sir Harry Lauder.
Sir Harry Lauder
Scottish entertainer
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Wojciech Adalbert Zywny
Polish musician
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Russian 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
Igor Stravinsky
Igor Stravinsky
Russian 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
Luigi Boccherini
Luigi Boccherini
Italian composer
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Arcangelo Corelli
Italian musician
Portrait of Benjamin Britten, British composer, wearing a suit and patterned tie, looking toward the camera with a neutral expression.
Benjamin Britten
British composer
Paul Hindemith.
Paul Hindemith
German composer
Hans Werner Henze.
Hans Werner Henze
German composer
Ditters von Dittersdorf, Carl
Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf
Austrian composer and violinist
Poulenc
Francis Poulenc
French composer
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Sir Richard Rodney Bennett
British composer
Portrait of Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber, Austrian composer, violinist, and Salzburg court Kapellmeister, shown in a formal engraved bust portrait wearing period attire with a long curled wig.
Heinrich Biber
Bohemian composer
Giuseppe Tartini
Giuseppe Tartini
Italian musician
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Bob Wills
American musician
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Easley Blackwood, Jr.
American composer
Aleksandr Glazunov.
Aleksandr Glazunov
Russian composer