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Aaron Copland

American composer, composition teacher, writer, and conductor

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Aarre Merikanto

Finnish composer

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Ahmed Adnan Saygun

Turkish composer

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Alan Hovhaness

Armenian-American composer

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Alan Rawsthorne

British composer

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Albert Roussel

French composer

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Alberto Williams

Argentine composer

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Alexander Borodin

Russian composer, doctor and chemist

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Alexander Glazunov

Russian composer, music teacher and conductor

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Alexander Goehr

English composer

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Alexander Moyzes

Slovak composer (1906–1984)

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Alexander Scriabin

Russian pianist and composer

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Alexander Tcherepnin

American composer

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Alexander von Zemlinsky

Austrian composer, conductor, and teacher

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Alfred Schnittke

German Soviet composer

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Alla Pavlova

Russian composer

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Alun Hoddinott

Welsh composer

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Andrzej Panufnik

Polish composer and conductor

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André Jolivet

French composer

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Anton Bruckner

Austrian composer

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Anton Fils

German composer

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Anton Reicha

Czech-born French composer

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Aram Khachaturian

Armenian Soviet composer and conductor (1903-1978)

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Arnold Bax

English composer and poet

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Arthur Meulemans

Belgian composer

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Arthur Sullivan

English composer of the Gilbert & Sullivan duo

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Arvo Pärt

Estonian composer

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August Enna

Danish composer

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Aulis Sallinen

Finnish composer

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Benjamin Britten

English composer, conductor, and pianist

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Bolesław Woytowicz

Polish composer, pianist, educator

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Camargo Guarnieri

Brazilian composer

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Camille Saint-Saëns

French composer, organist, conductor and pianist

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Carl Loewe

German composer

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Carl Nielsen

Danish composer

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Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

German harpsichordist and composer

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Carl Reinecke

German composer, conductor and pianist

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Carles Baguer

Catalan organist and composer

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Carlos Chávez

Mexican composer, conductor, music theorist, educator, journalist, and founder of the Mexican Symphonic Orchestra (1899-1978)

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Catharinus Elling

Norwegian musician, composer, musicologist, and music educator

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Charles Arnold Tournemire

French composer

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Charles Gounod

French composer

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Charles Ives

American composer

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Charles Koechlin

French composer, teacher and writer on music

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Charles Wuorinen

American composer

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Christian Cannabich

German violinist, composer, and Kapellmeister

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Christian Sinding

Norwegian composer

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Christopher Rouse

American composer

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Cyril Scott

English composer, writer, and poet

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César Franck

Belgian-French composer, organist and music teacher

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Darius Milhaud

French composer, conductor and teacher (1892-1974)

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David Diamond

American classical composer (1915-2005)

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Dmitri Kabalevsky

Russian composer

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Dmitri Shostakovich

Russian Soviet composer and pianist (1906-1975)

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Donald Tovey

British composer

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Edgar Bainton

British composer

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Edison Denisov

Russian Soviet composer

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Edmund Rubbra

British composer

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Eduard Tubin

Estonian composer and conductor

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Edward Elgar

English composer

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Edwin Carr

New Zealand composer

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Eino Tamberg

Estonian composer

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Elliott Carter

American composer

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Emil von Reznicek

Austrian late Romantic composer

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Emilie Mayer

German composer

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Erkki Melartin

Finnish conductor and composer

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Erkki-Sven Tüür

Estonian composer

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Ernest Bloch

American composer (1880-1959)

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Ernest Chausson

French composer

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Ernst Pepping

German composer

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Ernst Toch

Austrian composer

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Eugene Aynsley Goossens

English conductor and composer

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Fazıl Say

Turkish pianist and composer

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Felix Weingartner

Austrian conductor, composer and pianist

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Florent Schmitt

French composer

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Francisco Mignone

Brazilian composer

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Franco Alfano

Italian composer and pianist

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Franz Liszt

Hungarian romantic composer and virtuoso pianist

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Franz Xaver Richter

Austro-Moravian singer, violinist, composer, conductor and music theoretician

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Gara Garayev

Azerbaijani composer (1918-1982)

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Gavriil Popov

Russian composer

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Geoffrey Bush

British composer, organist and scholar

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George Antheil

American avant-garde composer, pianist, author and inventor

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George Enescu

Romanian composer

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George Onslow

French composer

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George Whitefield Chadwick

American composer

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Georges Bizet

French composer

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Giovanni Battista Sammartini

Italian composer

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Glenn Branca

American composer and guitarist (1948-2018)

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Gloria Coates

American composer

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Granville Bantock

British composer and conductor

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Grażyna Bacewicz

Polish composer, violinist

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Gustav Mahler

Austrian late-Romantic composer

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Guy Ropartz

French composer

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Hans Werner Henze

German composer

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Hector Berlioz

French Romantic composer

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Heino Eller

Estonian composer and composition teacher

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Heitor Villa-Lobos

Brazilian composer

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Henry Kimball Hadley

American composer

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Henryk Gorecki

Polish composer (1933–2010)

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Hubert Parry

British composer, teacher and historian of music

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Igor Stravinsky

Russian composer, pianist and conductor

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Ikuma Dan

Japanese composer, essayist (1924-2001)

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Isang Yun

Korean composer

104

Jan Krenz

Polish conductor and composer

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Jan van Gilse

Dutch conductor

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Jaroslav Krček

Czech conductor, composer and musician

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Jean Absil

Belgian composer, organist, and professor

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Jean Sibelius

Finnish composer of the late Romantic period

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Joe Jackson

English musician and singer-songwriter

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Johan Svendsen

Norwegian composer and conductor

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Johannes Bernardus van Bree

Dutch composer, violinist and conductor

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Johannes Brahms

German composer and pianist

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John McCabe

English composer and pianist

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Joly Braga Santos

Portuguese composer

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Joonas Kokkonen

Finnish composer

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Josef Mysliveček

Czech composer

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Josef Suk

Czech composer and violinist (1874-1935)

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Joseph Haydn

Austrian composer

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Joseph Holbrooke

English composer, conductor, and pianist

120

Joseph Martin Kraus

German composer

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Joseph Marx

Austrian composer, teacher and critic

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Jouni Kaipainen

Finnish composer

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Kalevi Aho

Finnish composer

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Karol Szymanowski

Polish composer

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Krzysztof Penderecki

Polish composer and conductor

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Kurt Weill

German composer

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Lars-Erik Larsson

Swedish composer and conductor

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Leevi Madetoja

Finnish composer

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Leif Segerstam

Finnish conductor and composer

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Lennox Berkeley

British composer

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Leonard Bernstein

American composer, conductor, author, music lecturer, and pianist

132

Lepo Sumera

Estonian composer

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Louis Spohr

German composer, violinist and conductor

134

Louis Vierne

French organist and composer

135

Ludwig van Beethoven

German classical and romantic composer

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Luís de Freitas Branco

Portuguese composer, musicologist, and professor of music

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Malcolm Arnold

English composer, conductor

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Malcolm Williamson

Australian composer

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Marcel Landowski

French composer

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Marcel Mihalovici

French composer

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Maximilian Steinberg

Russian classical music composer (1883-1946)

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Mieczysław Weinberg

Polish Soviet composer

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Mikhail Glinka

Russian composer

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Mikis Theodorakis

Greek recording artist; songwriter, politician

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Mily Balakirev

Russian composer, pianist, and conductor

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Morton Gould

American composer, conductor, arranger, and pianist

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Ned Rorem

American composer

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Nikolai Myaskovsky

Russian composer

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Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

Russian composer

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Nino Rota

Italian composer (1911-1979)

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Olivier Messiaen

French composer, organist and ornithologist

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Osvaldas Balakauskas

Lithuanian composer and diplomat

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Otto Klemperer

German conductor and composer

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Paul Büttner

German composer, conductor, choir director, musicologist, oboist and music critic

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Paul Creston

American composer

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Paul Dukas

French composer

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Paul Hindemith

German-born American composer (1895–1963)

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Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen

Danish composer

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Per Nørgård

Danish composer

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Peter Maxwell Davies

English composer and conductor

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Peter Racine Fricker

English composer

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Philip Glass

American composer and pianist

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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Russian composer

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Ralph Vaughan Williams

English composer

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Reinhold Glière

Soviet Ukrainian composer

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Richard Strauss

German composer and orchestra director

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Robert Casadesus

French pianist and composer

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Robert Gerhard

Catalan composer and musical scholar and writer

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Robert Schumann

German composer

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Robert Simpson

English composer and BBC producer and broadcaster

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Rodion Shchedrin

Russian composer

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Rued Langgaard

Danish composer and organist

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Rutland Boughton

English composer of opera and choral music

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Samuel Barber

American composer (1910-1981)

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Sergei Prokofiev

Ukrainian & Russian Soviet pianist and composer

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Sergei Rachmaninoff

Russian composer, pianist, and conductor

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Shardad Rohani

Iranian-American composer, violinist/pianist, and conductor.

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Takashi Yoshimatsu

Japanese classical composer

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Tobias Picker

American composer

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Tomaso Albinoni

Italian composer

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Toshihiko Sahashi

Japanese composer

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Toshiro Mayuzumi

Japanese composer

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Ture Rangström

Swedish composer

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Uuno Klami

Finnish composer

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Vagn Holmboe

Danish composer

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Valentyn Sylvestrov

Ukrainian pianist and composer

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Vernon Duke

American composer

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Vincenzo Bellini

Italian opera composer (1801–1835)

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Virgil Thomson

American composer and critic

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Vladimír Godár

Slovak composer

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William Alwyn

English composer, conductor, and music teacher

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William Bolcom

American composer

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William Schuman

American composer and arts administrator (1910-1992)

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William Walton

English composer

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Austrian composer of the Classical period

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Władysław Żeleński

Polish neoromantic composer, pianist and organist

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Yasushi Akutagawa

Japanese composer (1925-1989)

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Zbigniew Turski

Polish composer