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Also Known As Peter Mennini
Born May 17, 1923 • Erie • Pennsylvania
Died June 17, 1983 (aged 60) • New York City • New York
Movement / Style Neoclassical art
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Samuel Barber
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Ludwig van Beethoven
Ludwig van Beethoven
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Johannes Brahms
Johannes Brahms
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Igor Stravinsky
Igor Stravinsky
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
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Felix Mendelssohn
Felix Mendelssohn
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Dmitri Shostakovich
Russian composer
Luigi Boccherini
Luigi Boccherini
Italian composer
Béla Bartók
Béla Bartók
Hungarian composer
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Arnold Schoenberg
American composer
Joseph Haydn
Joseph Haydn
Austrian composer
Franz Schubert
Franz Schubert
Austrian composer
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César Franck
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Camille Saint-Saëns
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Aleksandr Glazunov
Russian composer
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