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Born September 4, 1892 • Aix-en-Provence • France
Died June 22, 1974 (aged 81) • Geneva • Switzerland
Notable Works “Agamemnon” • “Choéphores” • “Le Boeuf sur le toit” • “Les Euménides” • “Saudades do Brasil”
Movement / Style Les Six
William Schuman
American composer
Maurice Ravel
Maurice Ravel
French composer
Arthur Honegger
Arthur Honegger
French composer
Sergey Prokofiev
Sergey Prokofiev
Russian composer
Igor Stravinsky
Igor Stravinsky
Russian composer
Henri Sauguet
French composer
Poulenc
Francis Poulenc
French composer
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Russian composer
Claude Debussy
Claude Debussy
French composer
Lalo
Édouard Lalo
French composer
Ludwig van Beethoven
Ludwig van Beethoven
German composer
Felix Mendelssohn
Felix Mendelssohn
German musician and composer
Béla Bartók
Béla Bartók
Hungarian composer
Dmitri Shostakovich
Dmitri Shostakovich
Russian composer
Aaron Copland
Aaron Copland
American composer
Sir Richard Rodney Bennett
British composer
Walter Piston
American composer
Sir Eugene Goossens
British conductor
Egon Wellesz
Austrian composer and musicologist
Bizet, Georges
Georges Bizet
French composer

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