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Thomas Adès
British composer, pianist and conductor
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Claudio Abbado
Italian conductor (1933-2014)
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Pietro Mascagni
Italian composer known for operas
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Roberto Abbado
Italian conductor
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Reinbert de Leeuw
Dutch conductor
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Tobias Picker
American composer
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Julian Anderson
British composer and teacher of composition
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Bruno Bartoletti
Italian conductor
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Gian Carlo Menotti
Italian-American composer and librettist
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Terence Blanchard
American musician and composer
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Tullio Serafin
Italian conductor
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Piero Bellugi
Italian conductor
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Pierre-Laurent Aimard
French pianist
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Giacomo Puccini
Italian opera composer (1858-1924)
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Oliver Knussen
British composer and conductor
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Riccardo Chailly
Italian conductor
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Toshio Hosokawa
Japanese composer of contemporary classical music
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David Pountney
British theatre director
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Rohan de Saram
Sri Lankan musician
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Howard Shore
Canadian composer and conductor noted for his film scores (born 1946)
