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Born March 8, 1714 • Weimar • Germany
Died December 14, 1788 (aged 74) • Hamburg • Germany
Movement / Style Baroque music • empfindsamer Stil
Notable Family Members father Johann Sebastian Bach

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Johann Sebastian Bach
Johann Sebastian Bach
German composer
Johannes Brahms
Johannes Brahms
German composer
Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, drawing by P. Gulle, 1783; in the Staatsbibliothek, Berlin
Wilhelm Friedemann Bach
German composer
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Austrian composer
Ludwig van Beethoven
Ludwig van Beethoven
German composer
Robert Schumann
Robert Schumann
German composer
Joseph Haydn
Joseph Haydn
Austrian composer
Franz Schubert
Franz Schubert
Austrian composer
Franz Liszt
Franz Liszt
Hungarian composer
Felix Mendelssohn
Felix Mendelssohn
German musician and composer
Paul Hindemith.
Paul Hindemith
German composer
Max Reger
German composer
Johann Christian Bach
German composer
Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach
German composer
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Russian composer
Sergey Prokofiev
Sergey Prokofiev
Russian composer
Igor Stravinsky
Igor Stravinsky
Russian composer
Antonín Dvořák.
Antonín Dvořák
Bohemian composer
Luigi Boccherini
Luigi Boccherini
Italian composer
William Byrd
William Byrd
English composer

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