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Also Known As tone poem

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Richard Wagner
Richard Wagner
German composer
George Gershwin
George Gershwin
American composer
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Russian composer
Franz Liszt
Franz Liszt
Hungarian composer
Arnold Schoenberg
Arnold Schoenberg
American composer
Richard Strauss
Richard Strauss
German composer
Claude Debussy
Claude Debussy
French composer
Béla Bartók
Béla Bartók
Hungarian composer
César Franck, detail of a portrait by J. Rongier; in a private collection.
César Franck
Belgian-French composer
Sergey Rachmaninoff
Sergey Rachmaninoff
Russian musician
Heitor Villa-Lobos
Heitor Villa-Lobos
Brazilian composer
Sibelius, photograph by Yousuf Karsh, 1949
Jean Sibelius
Finnish composer
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Ralph Vaughan Williams
English composer
Mily Balakirev, portrait by Léon Bakst, c. 1900–10.
Mily Balakirev
Russian composer
Saint-Saëns, Camille
Camille Saint-Saëns
French composer
Aleksandr Scriabin.
Aleksandr Scriabin
Russian composer
Smetana
Bedřich Smetana
Bohemian composer
Ottorino Respighi, 1935.
Ottorino Respighi
Italian composer
Aleksandr Borodin
Russian composer and scientist
Ernest Bloch.
Ernest Bloch
American composer

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