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Born October 6, 1873 • Jersey City • New Jersey
Died October 30, 1928 (aged 55) • New York City • New York
Subjects Of Study music • library classification
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Robert Eitner
German musicologist
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Peter Warlock
British composer
Spitta, Philipp
Philipp Spitta
German musicologist
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Alfred Einstein
German-American musicologist and critic
Portrait of Colonel John Shaw Billings, M.D.
John Shaw Billings
American surgeon and librarian
Putnam, Herbert
Herbert Putnam
American librarian
Silliman, Benjamin
Benjamin Silliman
American geologist and chemist [1779-1864]
Robert Schumann
Robert Schumann
German composer
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Felipe Pedrell
Spanish composer
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Edward Arber
British scholar
Novikov, Nikolay Ivanovich
Nikolay Ivanovich Novikov
Russian writer
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James Hadley Billington
American librarian
W.H. Auden
W. H. Auden
British poet
A pioneering librarian
Belle da Costa Greene
American librarian and bibliographer
Schuller, Gunther
Gunther Schuller
American composer
Milton Babbitt.
Milton Babbitt
American composer
Eleanor Medill Patterson.
Eleanor Medill Patterson
American publisher
Portrait of John Hay Whitney wearing glasses, a suit, and a tie, looking directly at the camera.
John Hay Whitney
American sportsman and businessman
Sessions
Roger Sessions
American composer
Henry Rollins
Henry Rollins
American singer and writer