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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Austrian composer

Johannes Brahms

Johannes Brahms

German composer

Arnold Schoenberg

Arnold Schoenberg

American composer

Anton von Webern, 1940.

Anton Webern

Austrian composer

Pierre Boulez

Pierre Boulez

French composer and conductor

Charles Ives

American composer

Nono

Luigi Nono

Italian composer

Erik Satie

Erik Satie

French composer

Elgar, Sir Edward

Sir Edward Elgar

English composer

Leonard Bernstein

Leonard Bernstein

American composer and conductor

Sir Richard Rodney Bennett

British composer

Claude Le Jeune

French composer

Francis Pilkington

British composer

John Wilbye

English composer

Alfred Schnittke

Russian composer

Jacques Arcadelt

French composer

Johann Hermann Schein

German composer

Sir Lennox Berkeley, 1988.

Sir Lennox Berkeley

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Sir Andrzej Panufnik

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Agostino Agazzari

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