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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
Joseph Haydn
Joseph Haydn
Austrian composer
Strozzi, Bernardo: portrait of Claudio Monteverdi
Claudio Monteverdi
Italian composer and musician
Franz Schubert
Franz Schubert
Austrian composer
Franz Liszt
Franz Liszt
Hungarian composer
Igor Stravinsky
Igor Stravinsky
Russian composer
Gioachino Rossini
Gioachino Rossini
Italian composer
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
Italian composer
Bruckner, Anton
Anton Bruckner
Austrian composer
William Byrd
William Byrd
English 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
Guillaume de Machaut, detail of a miniature from Oeuvres de Guillaume de Machaut, c. 1370–80; in the Bibliothèque Nationale (Ms. Fr. 1584).
Guillaume de Machaut
French poet and musician
Gounod, Charles
Charles Gounod
French composer
Tallis, Thomas
Thomas Tallis
English composer
Cherubini, Luigi
Luigi Cherubini
Italian composer
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
Alessandro Scarlatti, detail of a portrait by an unknown artist, 1692; in the Palacio del Duque de Hijar, Epila, Spain
Alessandro Scarlatti
Italian composer
Josquin des Prez
Josquin des Prez
French-Flemish composer

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