Sir Frederic Hymen Cowen

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Born	January 29, 1852 • Kingston • Jamaica
Died	October 6, 1935 (aged 83) • London • England

Hector Berlioz

French composer

Benjamin Britten

British composer

Gustav Mahler

Austrian composer

Felix Mendelssohn

German musician and composer

Ralph Vaughan Williams

English composer

Arthur Sullivan

British composer

Sir Michael Tippett

British composer

Joseph Haydn

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Igor Stravinsky

Russian composer

George Frideric Handel

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Georg Philipp Telemann

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Sergey Rachmaninoff

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Leonard Bernstein

American composer and conductor

Gunther Schuller

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Carl Nielsen

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English composer

Sir Henry J. Wood

British musician

Sir Eugene Goossens

British conductor

Richard Wagner

German composer

Claudio Monteverdi

Italian composer and musician

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