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Johann Baptist Cramer
British pianist
Franz Liszt
Franz Liszt
Hungarian composer
Frédéric Chopin
Frédéric Chopin
Polish-French composer and pianist
Claude Debussy
Claude Debussy
French composer
Sergey Rachmaninoff
Sergey Rachmaninoff
Russian musician
Paganini, Niccolò
Niccolò Paganini
Italian composer
Clementi
Muzio Clementi
Italian-born British composer and pianist
Toch
Ernst Toch
Austrian composer
Easley Blackwood, Jr.
American composer
Valentin Alkan
French pianist and composer
Bériot, Charles-Auguste de
Charles-Auguste de Bériot
Belgian violinist
Rodolphe Kreutzer
French composer
Czerny, Carl
Carl Czerny
Austrian pianist, teacher, and composer
Henselt, Adolf von
Adolf von Henselt
German musician

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