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Joseph Haydn
Joseph Haydn
Austrian composer
Richard Wagner
Richard Wagner
German composer
George Gershwin
George Gershwin
American composer
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Russian composer
Johannes Brahms
Johannes Brahms
German composer
Hector Berlioz
Hector Berlioz
French composer
Igor Stravinsky
Igor Stravinsky
Russian composer
Gustav Mahler
Gustav Mahler
Austrian composer
Sergey Prokofiev
Sergey Prokofiev
Russian composer
George Frideric Handel
George Frideric Handel
German-English composer
Arnold Schoenberg
Arnold Schoenberg
American composer
Richard Strauss
Richard Strauss
German composer
Felix Mendelssohn
Felix Mendelssohn
German musician and composer
Anton von Webern, 1940.
Anton Webern
Austrian composer
Claude Debussy
Claude Debussy
French composer
Alban Berg
Austrian composer
Antonín Dvořák.
Antonín Dvořák
Bohemian composer
Béla Bartók
Béla Bartók
Hungarian composer
Modest Mussorgsky, portrait by Ilya Repin, 1881; in the Gosudarstvennaya Tretyakovskaya Galereya, Moscow.
Modest Mussorgsky
Russian composer
Maurice Ravel
Maurice Ravel
French composer

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