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Also Known As Isaac Manuel Francisco Albéniz
Born May 29, 1860 • Spain
Died May 18, 1909 (aged 48) • France
Notable Works “Asturias”
Movement / Style nationalistic music

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Manuel de Falla
Spanish composer
Granados
Enrique Granados
Spanish composer
Antonín Dvořák.
Antonín Dvořák
Bohemian composer
Modest Mussorgsky, portrait by Ilya Repin, 1881; in the Gosudarstvennaya Tretyakovskaya Galereya, Moscow.
Modest Mussorgsky
Russian composer
Mily Balakirev, portrait by Léon Bakst, c. 1900–10.
Mily Balakirev
Russian composer
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Ralph Vaughan Williams
English composer
Smetana
Bedřich Smetana
Bohemian composer
Leoš Janáček
Leoš Janáček
Czech composer
César Cui, drawing by I. Repin, 1900.
César Cui
Russian composer
Aleksandr Glazunov.
Aleksandr Glazunov
Russian composer
Dmitry Kabalevsky
Russian composer
Palmgren
Selim Palmgren
Finnish composer
Nikolay Tcherepnin.
Nikolay Tcherepnin
Russian composer
Carlos Surinach
American composer
Felipe Pedrell
Spanish composer
Shulamit Ran
Israeli composer, pianist, and educator
Wojciech Adalbert Zywny
Polish musician
Ludwig van Beethoven
Ludwig van Beethoven
German composer
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Austrian composer
Joseph Haydn
Joseph Haydn
Austrian composer