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Born March 6, 1870 • Vienna • Austria
Died January 11, 1954 (aged 83) • Bad Ischl • Austria

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Jacques Offenbach
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French singer
Strauss, Johann, the Younger
Johann Strauss II
Austrian composer
Robert Planquette
French composer
Reynaldo Hahn
French composer
Charles Lecocq
French composer
André Messager.
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French composer
Franz von Suppé
Austrian composer
Ignace Joseph Pleyel, watercolour by an unknown artist
Ignace Joseph Pleyel
Austrian-French composer
Giacomo Puccini
Giacomo Puccini
Italian composer
Mikhail Alekseyevich Kuzmin
Russian writer and composer
portrait of Arthur Sullivan by John Everett Millais
Arthur Sullivan
British composer
Kurt Weill
Kurt Weill
German-American composer
Emmerich Kálmán
Hungarian composer
John Philip Sousa.
John Philip Sousa
American composer
Detail of portrait of Charles Dibdin, oil on canvas, by Thomas Phillips, 1799; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
Charles Dibdin
British composer, author, actor and manager
Victor Herbert, 1906
Victor Herbert
American composer
Sigmund Romberg
American composer
Rudolf Friml, c. 1932
Rudolf Friml
American composer
Franz Lehár
Hungarian composer