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Also Known As	dance suite

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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

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

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

Telemann, Georg Philipp

Georg Philipp Telemann

German composer

Jean-Baptiste Lully, engraving by Geille after Johannot, c. 1830.

Jean-Baptiste Lully

French composer

Saint-Saëns, Camille

Camille Saint-Saëns

French composer

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Johann Hermann Schein

German composer

François Couperin

François Couperin

French composer [1668-1733]

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Jacques Champion de Chambonnières

French composer

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Denis Gaultier

French composer

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Dmitry Kabalevsky

Russian composer

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Georg Muffat

German composer

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Johann Jakob Froberger

German composer

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Johann Joseph Fux

Austrian composer

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Georg Böhm

German composer

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Johann Philipp Krieger

German composer

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Ruth Crawford Seeger

American composer

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

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