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Born	November 17, 1816 • Czech Republic
Died	June 28, 1876 (aged 59) • Vienna • Austria
Notable Works	“Geschichte der Musik”

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Austrian musicologist

Erich Moritz von Hornbostel

Austrian musicologist

Alfred Einstein

German-American musicologist and critic

Sir John Stainer

British composer

Charles Bordes

French composer

Thurston Dart

British musician

Egon Wellesz

Austrian composer and musicologist

Tom Stoppard

British writer

Philostratus the Younger

Greek author

Ada Louise Huxtable

American architecture critic

Edmond Goncourt

French author

John Lomax

American folklorist

Jules Goncourt

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Sidney Colvin

English scholar

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Swiss-born French philosopher

Molière

French dramatist

Charles Baudelaire

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John Ruskin

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George Bernard Shaw

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