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Composers & Their Music
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7 of the World’s Deadliest Shipwrecks
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Born May 19, 1947 (age 77) • Melbourne • Australia

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Luigi Boccherini
Luigi Boccherini
Italian composer
Marvin Hamlisch.
Marvin Hamlisch
American composer, pianist, and conductor
Brad Mehldau
Brad Mehldau
American musician
John Field, engraving by Carl Mayer
John Field
Irish composer
Valentin Alkan
French pianist and composer
Hummel, Johann Nepomuk
Johann Nepomuk Hummel
Austrian composer
Grainger
Percy Grainger
American composer
Pete Johnson
American musician
Wojciech Adalbert Zywny
Polish musician
Cedar Walton
American musician
Leon Russell
American songwriter, producer, and musician
Shulamit Ran
Israeli composer, pianist, and educator
Ludwig van Beethoven
Ludwig van Beethoven
German composer
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Austrian composer
Joseph Haydn
Joseph Haydn
Austrian composer
Robert Schumann
Robert Schumann
German composer
Weber, Carl Maria von
Carl Maria von Weber
German composer and musician
Duke Ellington
Duke Ellington
American musician
Elton John, 2006
Elton John
British musician
Count Basie
Count Basie
American musician

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