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Born October 12, 1872 • England
Died August 26, 1958 (aged 85) • London • England
Notable Works “The Lark Ascending”
Movement / Style nationalistic music
Subjects Of Study folk music

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Ralph Vaughan Williams
Vaughan Williams, portrait by Juliet Pannett, 1957; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
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Béla Bartók
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Antonín Dvořák.
Antonín Dvořák
Bohemian composer
Benjamin Britten
Benjamin Britten
British composer
Felix Mendelssohn
Felix Mendelssohn
German musician and composer
Arnold Schoenberg
Arnold Schoenberg
American composer
Sir William Walton
British composer
Joseph Haydn
Joseph Haydn
Austrian composer
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Russian composer
Franz Schubert
Franz Schubert
Austrian composer
Sergey Prokofiev
Sergey Prokofiev
Russian composer
Igor Stravinsky
Igor Stravinsky
Russian composer
Maurice Ravel
Maurice Ravel
French composer
Sergey Rachmaninoff
Sergey Rachmaninoff
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Leonard Bernstein
Leonard Bernstein
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Mily Balakirev, portrait by Léon Bakst, c. 1900–10.
Mily Balakirev
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Leoš Janáček
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George Frideric Handel
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