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Born March 22, 1727 • Scotland
Died March 1, 1807 (aged 79) • Scotland
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Sir Harry Lauder
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Polish musician
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Russian composer
Sergey Prokofiev
Sergey Prokofiev
Russian composer
Igor Stravinsky
Igor Stravinsky
Russian composer
Béla Bartók
Béla Bartók
Hungarian composer
Dmitri Shostakovich
Dmitri Shostakovich
Russian composer
Luigi Boccherini
Luigi Boccherini
Italian composer
Arcangelo Corelli
Italian musician
Benjamin Britten
Benjamin Britten
British composer
Paul Hindemith.
Paul Hindemith
German composer
Hans Werner Henze.
Hans Werner Henze
German composer
Ditters von Dittersdorf, Carl
Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf
Austrian composer and violinist
Poulenc
Francis Poulenc
French composer
Sir Richard Rodney Bennett
British composer
Heinrich Biber
Bohemian composer
Tartini, Giuseppe
Giuseppe Tartini
Italian musician
Bob Wills
American musician
Easley Blackwood, Jr.
American composer
Aleksandr Glazunov.
Aleksandr Glazunov
Russian composer