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Richard Wagner
Richard Wagner
German composer
George Gershwin
George Gershwin
American composer
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Russian composer
Franz Schubert
Franz Schubert
Austrian composer
Johannes Brahms
Johannes Brahms
German composer
Franz Liszt
Franz Liszt
Hungarian composer
Hector Berlioz
Hector Berlioz
French composer
Gluck
Christoph Willibald Gluck
German composer
Gustav Mahler
Gustav Mahler
Austrian composer
Richard Strauss
Richard Strauss
German composer
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Robert Burns
Scottish poet
Robert Schumann
Robert Schumann
German composer
Purcell, Henry
Henry Purcell
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Alban Berg
Austrian composer
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Antonín Dvořák
Bohemian composer
Donizetti, Gaetano
Gaetano Donizetti
Italian opera composer
Modest Mussorgsky, portrait by Ilya Repin, 1881; in the Gosudarstvennaya Tretyakovskaya Galereya, Moscow.
Modest Mussorgsky
Russian composer
Bizet, Georges
Georges Bizet
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Andrew Lloyd Webber
English composer and theatrical producer
William Byrd
William Byrd
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