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Also Known As Olivier-Eugène-Prosper-Charles Messiaen
Born December 10, 1908 • Avignon • France
Died April 27, 1992 (aged 83) • Clichy • France
Awards And Honors Grammy Award (1995)
Notable Works “Quartet for the End of Time” • “Turangalîla-Symphonie”
Subjects Of Study music • birdsong

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Johannes Brahms
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Antonín Dvořák.
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Bohemian composer
Aaron Copland
Aaron Copland
American composer
Leonard Bernstein
Leonard Bernstein
American composer and conductor
Schuller, Gunther
Gunther Schuller
American composer
Poulenc
Francis Poulenc
French composer
Igor Stravinsky
Igor Stravinsky
Russian composer
Pierre Boulez
Pierre Boulez
French composer and conductor
Joseph Haydn
Joseph Haydn
Austrian composer
Felix Mendelssohn
Felix Mendelssohn
German musician and composer
Bruckner, Anton
Anton Bruckner
Austrian composer
Paul Hindemith.
Paul Hindemith
German composer
Sir Richard Rodney Bennett
British composer
William Boyce
British composer
Sir Andrzej Panufnik
British composer and conductor
Louis Spohr
German musician
Thomas Tomkins
English composer and organist
Jeremiah Clarke
English composer
Benjamin Britten
Benjamin Britten
British composer
Steve Reich
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