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Facts

Also Known As Thomas Augustine Arne
Born March 12, 1710 • London • England
Died March 5, 1778 (aged 67) • London • England
Notable Works “Alfred, a Masque”
Movement / Style Baroque music

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Thomas Arne, engraving (1782) after an illustration by Francesco Bartolozzi.
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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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Purcell, Henry
Henry Purcell
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Portrait of Benjamin Britten, British composer, wearing a suit and patterned tie, looking toward the camera with a neutral expression.
Benjamin Britten
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Sir Henry Rowley Bishop, detail of an oil painting by an unknown artist; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Sir Henry Rowley Bishop
English composer and conductor
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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Ludwig van Beethoven
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Joseph Haydn
Joseph Haydn
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Hector Berlioz
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Christoph Willibald Gluck
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Felix Mendelssohn
Felix Mendelssohn
German musician and composer
Bizet, Georges
Georges Bizet
French composer
Ditters von Dittersdorf, Carl
Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf
Austrian composer and violinist
Massenet, Jules
Jules Massenet
French composer
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Sir Frederic Hymen Cowen
British conductor and composer
Strozzi, Bernardo: portrait of Claudio Monteverdi
Claudio Monteverdi
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Antonio Vivaldi
Antonio Vivaldi
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Georg Philipp Telemann
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Jean-Baptiste Lully, engraving by Geille after Johannot, c. 1830.
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Heinrich Schütz
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