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Gluck
Christoph Willibald Gluck
German composer
Bizet, Georges
Georges Bizet
French composer
François-Adrien Boieldieu
François-Adrien Boieldieu
French composer
Daniel-François-Esprit Auber
French composer
André-Ernest-Modeste Grétry
Belgian-French composer
Favart, engraving by Claude-Antoine Littret de Montigny after a portrait by Jean-Étienne Liotard
Charles-Simon Favart
French dramatist
Ferdinand Hérold
French composer

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