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Born July 25, 1654 • Italy
Died February 12, 1728 (aged 73) • Frankfurt am Main • Germany
Giovanni Bononcini
Italian composer
Giovanni Legrenzi
Italian composer
Sergey Prokofiev
Sergey Prokofiev
Russian composer
Felix Mendelssohn
Felix Mendelssohn
German musician and composer
Béla Bartók
Béla Bartók
Hungarian composer
Telemann, Georg Philipp
Georg Philipp Telemann
German composer
John Adams
John Adams
American composer and conductor
Foss, 1969
Lukas Foss
American composer
Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, drawing by P. Gulle, 1783; in the Staatsbibliothek, Berlin
Wilhelm Friedemann Bach
German composer
Gioachino Rossini
Gioachino Rossini
Italian composer
Antonio Vivaldi
Antonio Vivaldi
Italian composer
Antonio Sacchini
Italian composer
Alessandro Scarlatti, detail of a portrait by an unknown artist, 1692; in the Palacio del Duque de Hijar, Epila, Spain
Alessandro Scarlatti
Italian composer
Pietro Antonio Cesti
Italian composer
Emanuele d’ Astorga
Italian composer
Alessandro Stradella
Italian composer
Felice Giardini
Italian composer
Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco
Italian composer
Carlo Caproli
Italian composer and musician
Ludwig van Beethoven
Ludwig van Beethoven
German composer

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