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La Monte Young
American avant-garde composer
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Theatre of Eternal Music
American musical group
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Claude Debussy
French composer
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Joaquín Turina
Spanish composer
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Erik Satie
French composer and pianist
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Maurice Ravel
French composer
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Albert Roussel
French composer
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Esa-Pekka Salonen
Finnish conductor and composer
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Tōru Takemitsu
Japanese composer and writer on aesthetics and music theory (1930-1996)
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Olivier Messiaen
French composer, organist and ornithologist
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Harold Budd
American musician
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Kurt Masur
German conductor
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Steve Reich
American composer
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George Crumb
American composer
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Mauricio Kagel
Argentine-German composer
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Claude Bolling
French musician
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Walter Gieseking
German pianist
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Elliott Carter
American composer
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Paul Dukas
French composer
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Angela Hewitt
Canadian classical pianist
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Tony Conrad
American filmmaker, violinist and composer (1940-2016)
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Terry Riley
American composer and performing musician
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Philip Glass
American composer and pianist
