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Also Known As Ruth Porter Crawford
Born July 3, 1901 • East Liverpool • Ohio
Died November 18, 1953 (aged 52) • Chevy Chase • Maryland
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Arnold Schoenberg
Arnold Schoenberg
American composer
Sessions
Roger Sessions
American composer
Ralph Shapey
American composer
Alban Berg
Austrian composer
George Gershwin
George Gershwin
American composer
Charles Ives
American composer
Elliott Carter
American composer
Zhou Long
Chinese American composer
Samuel Barber
American composer
Ernest Bloch.
Ernest Bloch
American composer
Roy Harris
American composer
William Schuman
American composer
Walter Piston
American composer
Peter Mennin
American composer
Igor Stravinsky
Igor Stravinsky
Russian composer
Milton Babbitt.
Milton Babbitt
American composer
Ernst Krenek
American composer
Ludwig van Beethoven
Ludwig van Beethoven
German composer
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Austrian composer
Giuseppe Verdi
Giuseppe Verdi
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