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Giacomo Puccini
Italian composer
Mikhail Alekseyevich Kuzmin
Russian writer and composer
portrait of Arthur Sullivan by John Everett Millais
Arthur Sullivan
British composer
Johannes Ewald, engraving by Johan Frederik Clemens, 1779.
Johannes Ewald
Danish poet
Kurt Weill
Kurt Weill
German-American composer
W.S. Gilbert
British playwright
Offenbach, Jacques
Jacques Offenbach
French composer
Linda Ronstadt
Linda Ronstadt
American singer
Emmerich Kálmán
Hungarian composer
John Philip Sousa.
John Philip Sousa
American composer
Marie Tempest
Marie Tempest
British actress
Antônio José da Silva
Portuguese writer
Ludovic Halévy
French author
Pauline Viardot
French singer
Strauss, Johann, the Younger
Johann Strauss II
Austrian composer
Detail of portrait of Charles Dibdin, oil on canvas, by Thomas Phillips, 1799; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
Charles Dibdin
British composer, author, actor and manager
Victor Herbert, 1906
Victor Herbert
American composer
Fay Templeton, 1895.
Fay Templeton
American singer and actress
Sigmund Romberg
American composer
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Rudolf Friml
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