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Also Known As Alan Vaness Chakmakjian • Alan Hovaness
Born March 8, 1911 • Somerville • Massachusetts
Died June 21, 2000 (aged 89) • Seattle • Washington
Igor Stravinsky
Igor Stravinsky
Russian composer
Aaron Copland
Aaron Copland
American composer
Schuller, Gunther
Gunther Schuller
American composer
Zhou Long
Chinese American composer
Roy Harris
American composer
William Schuman
American composer
Easley Blackwood, Jr.
American composer
Carlos Surinach
American composer
Toch
Ernst Toch
Austrian composer
Walter Piston
American composer
Daniel Gregory Mason, 1938.
Daniel Gregory Mason
American composer
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
Sergey Prokofiev
Sergey Prokofiev
Russian composer
Felix Mendelssohn
Felix Mendelssohn
German musician and composer
Robert Schumann
Robert Schumann
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