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Also Known As Werner Mayer
Born May 17, 1901 • Germany
Died July 10, 1983 (aged 82) • West Germany
Hans Werner Henze.
Hans Werner Henze
German composer
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Boris Blacher
German composer
Strozzi, Bernardo: portrait of Claudio Monteverdi
Claudio Monteverdi
Italian composer and musician
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Russian composer
Portrait of composer Sergey Prokofiev, circa 1938, wearing round glasses, a suit, and a tie, looking slightly to the side.
Sergey Prokofiev
Russian composer
Igor Stravinsky
Igor Stravinsky
Russian composer
Claude Debussy
Claude Debussy
French composer
Béla Bartók
Béla Bartók
Hungarian 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
Maurice Ravel
Maurice Ravel
French composer
Aaron Copland
Aaron Copland
American composer
Jean-Baptiste Lully, engraving by Geille after Johannot, c. 1830.
Jean-Baptiste Lully
French composer
Thea Musgrave
Thea Musgrave
British composer
Poulenc
Francis Poulenc
French composer
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Sir Richard Rodney Bennett
British composer
Ottorino Respighi, 1935.
Ottorino Respighi
Italian composer
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Darius Milhaud
French composer
Dukas
Paul Dukas
French composer
Szymanowski, Karol
Karol Szymanowski
Polish composer
Glière, Reinhold
Reinhold Glière
Soviet composer