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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Ludwig van Beethoven
Hector Berlioz
Franz Liszt
Felix Mendelssohn
Robert Schumann
Portrait of Johannes Brahms with arms crossed, wearing a dark suit and bow tie, photographed in 1853.
Antonín Dvořák
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
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Ludwig van Beethoven
Ludwig van Beethoven
German composer
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Austrian composer
Joseph Haydn
Joseph Haydn
Austrian 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
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
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
Robert Schumann
Robert Schumann
German composer
Bruckner, Anton
Anton Bruckner
Austrian composer
Portrait of Czech composer Antonin Dvorak with a beard, wearing a suit jacket, waistcoat, and bow tie.
Antonín Dvořák
Bohemian composer
Dmitry Shostakovich sits at a desk by a window, looking at sheet music, wearing glasses and a suit, with papers and books arranged on the desk.
Dmitri Shostakovich
Russian composer
Bizet, Georges
Georges Bizet
French composer
Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov, detail of a portrait by V.A. Serov; in the Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow.
Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov
Russian composer
Maurice Ravel
Maurice Ravel
French composer

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