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Born October 12, 1907 • Leipzig • Germany
Died September 11, 1987? • Heidelberg • Germany
Hans Werner Henze.
Hans Werner Henze
German composer
Igor Stravinsky
Igor Stravinsky
Russian composer
Arnold Schoenberg
Arnold Schoenberg
American composer
Aaron Copland
Aaron Copland
American composer
Schuller, Gunther
Gunther Schuller
American composer
Sir Richard Rodney Bennett
British composer
Ernst Krenek
American composer
Ludwig van Beethoven
Ludwig van Beethoven
German composer
Felix Mendelssohn
Felix Mendelssohn
German musician and composer
Kurt Weill
Kurt Weill
German-American composer
Heinrich Schütz
Heinrich Schütz
German composer
Paul Hindemith.
Paul Hindemith
German composer
Johann Christian Bach
German composer
Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, drawing by P. Gulle, 1783; in the Staatsbibliothek, Berlin
Wilhelm Friedemann Bach
German composer
Louis Spohr
German musician
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Austrian composer
Joseph Haydn
Joseph Haydn
Austrian composer
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Russian composer
Hector Berlioz
Hector Berlioz
French composer
Sergey Prokofiev
Sergey Prokofiev
Russian composer

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