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Born December 2, 1856 • Helsinki • Finland
Died July 6, 1933 (aged 76) • Helsinki • Finland
Movement / Style nationalistic music
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Bohemian composer
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Richard Wagner
German composer
Richard Strauss
Richard Strauss
German composer
Sergey Rachmaninoff in profile, seated at a piano, playing with both hands on the keys.
Sergey Rachmaninoff
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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
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Armas Järnefelt
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Joseph Haydn
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George Gershwin
George Gershwin
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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
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Johannes Brahms
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Hector Berlioz
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Gustav Mahler
Gustav Mahler
Austrian composer
Igor Stravinsky
Igor Stravinsky
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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
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Felix Mendelssohn
Felix Mendelssohn
German musician and 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
Claude Debussy
Claude Debussy
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Béla Bartók
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