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William Alwyn
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Johan Peter Emilius Hartmann
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Paavo Heininen
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Cipriani Potter
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Carl Reinecke
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Camargo Guarnieri
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Arthur Benjamin
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Georg Friedrich Haas
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Carl Nielsen
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David Horne
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Robert Ward
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Edwin Carr
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Alan Rawsthorne
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Vagn Holmboe
Vagn Holmboe
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Lennox Berkeley
Lennox Berkeley
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Dan Welcher
Dan Welcher
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Cyril Scott
Cyril Scott
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Lars-Erik Larsson
Lars-Erik Larsson
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Friedrich Kuhlau
Danish composer

Friedrich Kuhlau

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Danish composer
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Friedrich Kuhlau, pastel by Christian Horneman from 1828

Friedrich Daniel Rudolf Kuhlau (German; Danish sometimes Frederick Kulav) (11 September 1786 – 12 March 1832) was a Danish pianist and composer during the late Classical and early Romantic periods. He was a central figure of the Danish Golden Age and is immortalized in Danish cultural history through his music for Elves' Hill, the first true work of Danish National Romanticism and a concealed tribute to the absolute monarchy. To this day it is his version of this melody which is the definitive arrangement.

During his lifetime, Kuhlau was known primarily as a concert pianist and composer of Danish opera, but was responsible for introducing many of Beethoven's works, which he greatly admired, to Copenhagen audiences. Kuhlau was a prolific composer, as evidenced by the fact that although his house burned down, destroying all of his unpublished manuscripts, he still left a legacy of more than 200 published works in most genres.