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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

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

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