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Painting by Elias Gottlieb Hausmann of Johann Sebastian Bach wearing a dark coat with a white shirt and holding a sheet of music in his left hand.
Johann Sebastian Bach
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
Anton von Webern, 1940.
Anton Webern
Austrian composer
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
Italian composer
Tallis, Thomas
Thomas Tallis
English composer
Paul Hindemith.
Paul Hindemith
German composer
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Jean de Ockeghem
Flemish composer
Krzysztof Penderecki
Krzysztof Penderecki
Polish composer
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Tomás Luis de Victoria
Spanish composer
Pachelbel's Canon
Johann Pachelbel
German composer
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Johann Joseph Fux
Austrian composer
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Jean Mouton
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