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Ludwig van Beethoven

Ludwig van Beethoven

German composer

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Austrian composer

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

Giuseppe Verdi

Giuseppe Verdi

Italian composer

Richard Wagner

Richard Wagner

German composer

Johannes Brahms

Johannes Brahms

German composer

Franz Liszt

Franz Liszt

Hungarian 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

Robert Schumann

Robert Schumann

German 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

César Franck, detail of a portrait by J. Rongier; in a private collection.

César Franck

Belgian-French composer

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Dietrich Buxtehude

Danish composer

Busoni, Ferruccio

Ferruccio Busoni

German-Italian musician

J.P. Sweelinck

Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck

Dutch composer

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Max Reger

German composer

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Johann Georg Albrechtsberger

Austrian composer

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Johann Philipp Krieger

German composer

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François-Joseph Fétis

scholar and composer

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