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Shulamit Ran
Shulamit Ran
American composer
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Cyril Scott
Cyril Scott
English composer, writer, and poet
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David Diamond
David Diamond
American classical composer (1915-2005)
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John Harbison
John Harbison
American composer
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Ruth Gipps
Ruth Gipps
English composer, oboist, pianist and impresario
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Dmitri Smirnov
Dmitri Smirnov
Russian composer
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Robert Casadesus
Robert Casadesus
French pianist and composer
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Grażyna Bacewicz
Grażyna Bacewicz
Polish composer, violinist
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Alun Hoddinott
Alun Hoddinott
Welsh composer
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Paavo Heininen
Paavo Heininen
Finnish composer and pianist
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Ellen Taaffe Zwilich
Ellen Taaffe Zwilich
American composer
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Peter Racine Fricker
Peter Racine Fricker
English composer
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Alberto Ginastera
Alberto Ginastera
Argentine composer
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Lera Auerbach
Lera Auerbach
Soviet-Russian-born American classical composer and pianist
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Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
English composer
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George Whitefield Chadwick
George Whitefield Chadwick
American composer
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Josef Suk
Josef Suk
Czech violinist, violist, chamber musician and conductor (1929-2011)
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Sergei Prokofiev
Sergei Prokofiev
Ukrainian & Russian Soviet pianist and composer
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Aulis Sallinen
Aulis Sallinen
Finnish composer
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Johannes Brahms
Johannes Brahms
German composer and pianist
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Isaac Stern
Isaac Stern
American musician
Amy Beach
American composer and pianist

Amy Beach

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American composer and pianist
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Amy Marcy Cheney Beach (September 5, 1867 – December 27, 1944) was an American composer and pianist. She was the first successful American female composer of large-scale art music. Her "Gaelic" Symphony, premiered by the Boston Symphony Orchestra in 1896, was the first symphony composed and published by an American woman. She was one of the first American composers to succeed without the benefit of European training, and one of the most respected and acclaimed American composers of her era. As a pianist, she was acclaimed for concerts she gave featuring her own music in the United States and in Germany.