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Passion music: Quick Facts

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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
Joseph Haydn
Joseph Haydn
Austrian composer
Telemann, Georg Philipp
Georg Philipp Telemann
German composer
C.P.E. Bach
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
German composer
Heinrich Schütz
Heinrich Schütz
German composer
Alessandro Scarlatti, detail of a portrait by an unknown artist, 1692; in the Palacio del Duque de Hijar, Epila, Spain
Alessandro Scarlatti
Italian composer
Krzysztof Penderecki
Krzysztof Penderecki
Polish composer
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Tomás Luis de Victoria
Spanish composer
Binchois (right) with composer Guillaume Dufay, illumination from Martin le Franc's Le Champion des dames, c. 1440; in the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris (MS Fr. 12476).
Binchois
Flemish composer
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Johann Gottfried Walther
German composer
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Marc-Antoine Charpentier
French composer
Stainer, Sir John
Sir John Stainer
British composer
Graun, engraving by Riedel after a portrait by A. Moller
Carl Heinrich Graun
German composer
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Johann Kuhnau
German composer
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Jacob Handl
German-Austrian composer

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