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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
