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Born 1592 • Maidstone • England
Died October 27, 1678 (aged 86) • England
Clementi
Muzio Clementi
Italian-born British composer and pianist
John Dowland
English musician
Robert Johnson
English musician
Pelham Humfrey
English composer
Robert Jones
English composer
Ludwig van Beethoven
Ludwig van Beethoven
German composer
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Austrian composer
Johann Sebastian Bach
Johann Sebastian Bach
German composer
Franz Schubert
Franz Schubert
Austrian composer
Franz Liszt
Franz Liszt
Hungarian composer
Domenico Scarlatti, engraving.
Domenico Scarlatti
Italian composer
Luigi Boccherini
Luigi Boccherini
Italian composer
Sergey Rachmaninoff
Sergey Rachmaninoff
Russian musician
Pierre Boulez
Pierre Boulez
French composer and conductor
Elisabeth-Claude Jacquet de la Guerre
French musician
Arcangelo Corelli
Italian musician
C.P.E. Bach
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
German composer
Paul Hindemith.
Paul Hindemith
German composer
Girolamo Frescobaldi
Girolamo Frescobaldi
Italian composer
Poulenc
Francis Poulenc
French composer

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