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Key People

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

Aleksandr Scriabin.

Aleksandr Scriabin

Russian composer

Young girl wearing a demin jacket playing the trumpet (child, musical instruments, Asian ethnicity)

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