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Also Known As Peter Léonard Léopold Benoit
Born August 17, 1834 • Belgium
Died March 8, 1901 (aged 66) • Antwerp • Belgium
Awards And Honors Prix de Rome
Movement / Style nationalistic music
Hector Berlioz
Hector Berlioz
French composer
Felix Mendelssohn
Felix Mendelssohn
German musician and composer
Antonio Vivaldi
Antonio Vivaldi
Italian composer
Telemann, Georg Philipp
Georg Philipp Telemann
German composer
Ralph Vaughan Williams in 1957, wearing a dark suit and bow tie, with a serious expression and a brick wall in the background.
Ralph Vaughan Williams
English composer
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Théodore Dubois
French composer and organist
Mackenzie, Sir Alexander Campbell
Sir Alexander Campbell Mackenzie
British 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
Portrait of composer Sergey Prokofiev, circa 1938, wearing round glasses, a suit, and a tie, looking slightly to the side.
Sergey Prokofiev
Russian composer
Gustav Mahler
Gustav Mahler
Austrian composer
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
Gioachino Rossini
Gioachino Rossini
Italian 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
Portrait of Benjamin Britten, British composer, wearing a suit and patterned tie, looking toward the camera with a neutral expression.
Benjamin Britten
British composer
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Giovanni Legrenzi
Italian composer
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Sir Frederic Hymen Cowen
British conductor and composer
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Alessandro Stradella
Italian composer
Parker, Horatio
Horatio Parker
American composer
Leoš Janáček
Leoš Janáček
Czech composer

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