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Ottorino Respighi

Italian composer, musicologist and conductor

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Carlo Maria Giulini

Italian conductor

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Alan Gilbert

American conductor and violinist

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Harold Shapero

American composer

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Samuel Barber

American composer (1910-1981)

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John Corigliano

American composer

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Virgil Thomson

American composer and critic

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David Robertson

American conductor

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James Levine

American conductor and pianist

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Gian Carlo Menotti

Italian-American composer and librettist

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Cesare Valletti

Italian opera singer

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Wolfgang Sawallisch

German conductor and pianist

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Lewis Spratlan

American music academic and composer of contemporary classical music

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Pietro Mascagni

Italian composer known for operas

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Marcos Portugal

Portuguese classical composer

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Ruggero Leoncavallo

Italian composer

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Arturo Toscanini

Italian conductor (1867-1957)

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Victor de Sabata

Italian conductor and composer

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John Adams

American composer

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Nino Rota

Italian composer (1911-1979)

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Piero Bellugi

Italian conductor

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Mark Adamo

American composer and librettist

22

Philip Glass

American composer and pianist

23

Jacques Ibert

French composer

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Riz Ortolani

Italian film composer (1926-2014)

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Claudio Abbado

Italian conductor (1933-2014)

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Charles Wuorinen

American composer

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Munich Radio Orchestra

orchestra

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Osvaldo Golijov

Argentine composer of classical music