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Lowell Mason
Lowell Mason
American composer; leading figure in American church music
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Adolphe Adam
Adolphe Adam
French composer and music critic
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Roland Hayes
Roland Hayes
African American singer
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Itzhak Perlman
Itzhak Perlman
Israeli-American violinist and conductor
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Noël Lee
Noël Lee
American musician
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Phillips Brooks
Phillips Brooks
American clergyman and author, hymnwriter
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Edvard Grieg
Edvard Grieg
Norwegian composer and pianist
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John O'Conor
John O'Conor
Irish musician
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Ivan Davis
Ivan Davis
American musician
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Louis Spohr
Louis Spohr
German composer, violinist and conductor
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Erich Leinsdorf
Erich Leinsdorf
American conductor
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James Pierpont
James Pierpont
songwriter, arranger, and composer, best known for writing and composing "Jingle Bells"
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Leonard Bernstein
Leonard Bernstein
American composer, conductor, author, music lecturer, and pianist
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Jörg Demus
Jörg Demus
Austrian pianist
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Richard Kastle
Richard Kastle
American pianist and composer
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John Lill
John Lill
English classical pianist
John Sullivan Dwight
American minister

John Sullivan Dwight

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American minister

John Sullivan Dwight (May 13, 1813 – September 5, 1893) was a Unitarian minister, transcendentalist, and America's first influential classical music critic.