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Born June 6, 1915 • Philadelphia • Pennsylvania
Died August 14, 1987 (aged 72) • Philadelphia • Pennsylvania
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Peter Mennin
American composer
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Austrian composer
Johannes Brahms
Johannes Brahms
German composer
Igor Stravinsky
Igor Stravinsky
Russian composer
Schuller, Gunther
Gunther Schuller
American composer
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Easley Blackwood, Jr.
American composer
Toch
Ernst Toch
Austrian composer
Ludwig van Beethoven
Ludwig van Beethoven
German composer
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Russian composer
Franz Schubert
Franz Schubert
Austrian composer
Felix Mendelssohn
Felix Mendelssohn
German musician and composer
Robert Schumann
Robert Schumann
German composer
Portrait of Czech composer Antonin Dvorak with a beard, wearing a suit jacket, waistcoat, and bow tie.
Antonín Dvořák
Bohemian composer
Dmitry Shostakovich sits at a desk by a window, looking at sheet music, wearing glasses and a suit, with papers and books arranged on the desk.
Dmitri Shostakovich
Russian composer
Luigi Boccherini
Luigi Boccherini
Italian composer
César Franck, detail of a portrait by J. Rongier; in a private collection.
César Franck
Belgian-French composer
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Sir Richard Rodney Bennett
British composer
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Alfred Schnittke
Russian composer
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Sir Andrzej Panufnik
British composer and conductor
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Henri Sauguet
French composer

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