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Also Known As theme and variations • variation form • variation set

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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
Franz Schubert
Franz Schubert
Austrian composer
Johannes Brahms
Johannes Brahms
German composer
Felix Mendelssohn
Felix Mendelssohn
German musician and composer
César Franck, detail of a portrait by J. Rongier; in a private collection.
César Franck
Belgian-French composer
Sergey Rachmaninoff in profile, seated at a piano, playing with both hands on the keys.
Sergey Rachmaninoff
Russian musician
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Charles Ives
American composer
Elgar, Sir Edward
Sir Edward Elgar
English composer
Leoš Janáček
Leoš Janáček
Czech composer
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Antonio de Cabezón
Spanish composer
J.P. Sweelinck
Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck
Dutch composer
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Max Reger
German composer
Dohnányi, c. 1920
Ernst von Dohnányi
Hungarian composer
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Christopher Simpson
British composer

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