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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
Franz Schubert
Franz Schubert
Austrian composer
Hector Berlioz
Hector Berlioz
French 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
Gustav Mahler
Gustav Mahler
Austrian composer
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
German-English composer
Felix Mendelssohn
Felix Mendelssohn
German musician and composer
Gioachino Rossini
Gioachino Rossini
Italian 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
Antonio Vivaldi
Antonio Vivaldi
Italian composer
Béla Bartók
Béla Bartók
Hungarian composer
Jean-Philippe Rameau
Jean-Philippe Rameau
French 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
Telemann, Georg Philipp
Georg Philipp Telemann
German composer
César Franck, detail of a portrait by J. Rongier; in a private collection.
César Franck
Belgian-French composer
John Adams
John Adams
American composer and conductor
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Elisabeth-Claude Jacquet de la Guerre
French musician
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Barbara Strozzi
Italian singer and 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
Arvo Pärt
Arvo Pärt
Estonian composer

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