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Béla Bartók
Béla Bartók
Hungarian composer
Henry Dixon Cowell.
Henry Cowell
American composer
Zoltán Kodály
Hungarian composer
Natalie Curtis Burlin
American ethnomusicologist
Erich Moritz von Hornbostel
Austrian musicologist
Abraham Zevi Idelsohn
Russian composer
Lomax, Alan
Alan Lomax
American music scholar
Jaap Kunst
Dutch musicologist
Komitas
Komitas
Armenian composer