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Also Known As	plainchant

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Key People

Komitas

Komitas

Armenian composer

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John Marbeck

British composer

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Abraham Zevi Idelsohn

Russian composer

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

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