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Julia Ward Howe

American abolitionist, social activist, and poet

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John Stafford Smith

British composer (1750-1836)

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Richard Storrs Willis

American composer of hymn music

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Stephen Foster

American songwriter

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Lowell Mason

American composer; leading figure in American church music

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Dan Emmett

American entertainer

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Charles H. Gabriel

American composer of religious music

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Joseph E. Howard

American composer

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John Blow

English composer

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Charles Davis Tillman

American singer

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W. C. Handy

American blues composer and musician

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James Pierpont

songwriter, arranger, and composer, best known for writing and composing "Jingle Bells"

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Michael Praetorius

German composer, organist, and music theorist