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Also Known As Sir William Turner Walton
Born March 29, 1902 • Oldham • England
Died March 8, 1983 (aged 80) • Island of Ischia • Italy
Notable Works “Façade” • “Henry V”
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
English composer
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Austrian composer
Joseph Haydn
Joseph Haydn
Austrian 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
Ludwig van Beethoven
Ludwig van Beethoven
German composer
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Russian composer
Felix Mendelssohn
Felix Mendelssohn
German musician and 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
Portrait of Benjamin Britten, British composer, wearing a suit and patterned tie, looking toward the camera with a neutral expression.
Benjamin Britten
British composer
Johannes Brahms
Johannes Brahms
German 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
Sergey Rachmaninoff in profile, seated at a piano, playing with both hands on the keys.
Sergey Rachmaninoff
Russian musician
Aaron Copland
Aaron Copland
American composer
Schuller, Gunther
Gunther Schuller
American composer
Saint-Saëns, Camille
Camille Saint-Saëns
French composer
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Samuel Barber
American composer
Elgar, Sir Edward
Sir Edward Elgar
English composer
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Sir Michael Tippett
British composer

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