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Joseph Haydn
Joseph Haydn
Austrian composer
Richard Wagner
Richard Wagner
German composer
George Gershwin
George Gershwin
American composer
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Russian composer
Johannes Brahms
Johannes Brahms
German composer
Hector Berlioz
Hector Berlioz
French composer
Portrait of composer Sergey Prokofiev, circa 1938, wearing round glasses, a suit, and a tie, looking slightly to the side.
Sergey Prokofiev
Russian composer
Gustav Mahler
Gustav Mahler
Austrian composer
Igor Stravinsky
Igor Stravinsky
Russian 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
Richard Strauss
Richard Strauss
German composer
Felix Mendelssohn
Felix Mendelssohn
German musician and composer
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
Claude Debussy
Claude Debussy
French composer
Anton von Webern, 1940.
Anton Webern
Austrian composer
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Alban Berg
Austrian composer
Béla Bartók
Béla Bartók
Hungarian composer
Portrait of Czech composer Antonin Dvorak with a beard, wearing a suit jacket, waistcoat, and bow tie.
Antonín Dvořák
Bohemian composer
Modest Mussorgsky, portrait by Ilya Repin, 1881; in the Gosudarstvennaya Tretyakovskaya Galereya, Moscow.
Modest Mussorgsky
Russian composer
Maurice Ravel
Maurice Ravel
French composer

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