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Ludwig van Beethoven

Ludwig van Beethoven

German composer

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Austrian composer

Johann Sebastian Bach

Johann Sebastian Bach

German composer

Giuseppe Verdi

Giuseppe Verdi

Italian composer

Richard Wagner

Richard Wagner

German composer

Johannes Brahms

Johannes Brahms

German composer

Franz Liszt

Franz Liszt

Hungarian composer

George Frideric Handel

George Frideric Handel

German-English composer

Felix Mendelssohn

Felix Mendelssohn

German musician and composer

Robert Schumann

Robert Schumann

German composer

Béla Bartók

Béla Bartók

Hungarian composer

Dmitri Shostakovich

Dmitri Shostakovich

Russian composer

César Franck, detail of a portrait by J. Rongier; in a private collection.

César Franck

Belgian-French composer

Dietrich Buxtehude

Danish composer

Busoni, Ferruccio

Ferruccio Busoni

German-Italian musician

J.P. Sweelinck

Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck

Dutch composer

Max Reger

German composer

Johann Georg Albrechtsberger

Austrian composer

Johann Philipp Krieger

German composer

François-Joseph Fétis

Belgian music scholar

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