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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

Johannes Brahms

Johannes Brahms

German composer

Gioachino Rossini

Gioachino Rossini

Italian composer

Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina

Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina

Italian composer

William Byrd

William Byrd

English 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

Tallis, Thomas

Thomas Tallis

English composer

Jean-Baptiste Lully, engraving by Geille after Johannot, c. 1830.

Jean-Baptiste Lully

French composer

Josquin des Prez

Josquin des Prez

French-Flemish composer

Poulenc

Francis Poulenc

French composer

Dufay and Gilles Binchois

Guillaume Dufay

Franco-Flemish composer

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Philippe de Monte

Dutch composer

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Jean de Ockeghem

Flemish composer

Lasso, engraving by James Caldwall

Orlando di Lasso

Flemish composer

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Giovanni Gabrieli

Italian composer

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Christopher Tye

British composer

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Tomás Luis de Victoria

Spanish composer

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Cristóbal de Morales

Spanish composer

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Orlando Gibbons

English composer

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

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