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Zequinha de Abreu
* 1880, Santa Rita do Passa Quatro - † 1935, Sao Paulo
Enrique Crespo
* 1941, Montevideo
Bela Bartok
* 1881, Nagyszentmiklós - † 1945, New York
Ludwig van Beethoven
* 1770, Bonn - † 1827, Vienna
Alban Berg
* 1885, Vienna - † 1935, Vienna
Hector Berlioz
* 1803, La Côte Saint-André - † 1869 Paris
Leonard Bernstein
* 1918, Lawrence - † 1990, New York
Johannes Brahms
* 1833, Bonn † 1897, Vienna
Benjamin Britten
* 1913, Lowestoft - † 1976, Aldeburgh
Max Bruch
* 1838, Cologne - † 1920, Berlin
Anton Bruckner
* 1824, Ansfelden - † 1986, Vienna
Elliott Carter
* 1908, New York
Alfredo Catalani
* 1854, Lucca - † 1893, Milano
Muzio Clementi
* 1752, Rome - † 1832, Evesham
Do Hong Quan
* 1956, Vietnam
Hanns Eisler
* 1898, Leipzig - † 1962, East-Berlin
Michail Glinka
* 1804, Novo-Spaskoje - † 1857, Berlin
Edvard Grieg
* 1843, Bergen - † 1907, Bergen
Karsten Gundermann
* 1966, Dresden
Joseph Haydn
* 1732, Rohrau - † 1809, Vienna
Hans Werner Henze
*1926, Güterloh
Paul Hindemith
* 1895, Hanau - † 1963, Frankfurt am Main
Hans Huyssen
* 1964, Pretoria
Charles Ives
* 1874, Danbury - † 1954, New York City
Giya Kancheli
* 1935, Tifilis
Fritz Kreisler
* 1875, Austria - † 1962, New York
Witold Lutoslawski
* 1913, Warsaw - † 1994, Warsaw
Gustav Mahler
* 1860, Kalischt - † 1911, Vienna
Özkan Manav
* 1967, Mersin
André Mehmari
* 1977, Niteroi
Felix Mendelsohn Bartholdy
* 1809, Hamburg - † 1847, Leipzig
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
* 1756, Salzburg - † 1791, Vienna
Modest Mussorgsky
* 1839, Karevo - † 1881, Saint Petersburg
Luigi Nono
* 1924, Venice - † 1990, Venice
Johannes Ockeghem
* around 1425, Dendermonde - † 1495, Tours
Sergei Pilyutikov
* 1965, Uzin
Henry Purcell
* ca. 1659, Westminster - † 1695, London
Maurice Ravel
* 1875, Ciboure - † 1937, Paris
Ottorino Respighi
* 1879, Bologna - † 1936, Rome
Peter Ruzicka
* 1948, Düsseldorf
Mohamed Saad Basha
* 1972, Cairo
Franz Schubert
* 1797, Himmelpforten - 1828, Vienna
Robert Schumann
* 1810, Zwickau - † 1856, Bonn
Richard Strauss
* 1864, Munich - † 1949, Garmisch-Patenkrichen
Igor Stravinsky
* 1882, Oranienbaum - † 1971, New York City
Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky
* 1840, Kamsko-Votkinsk - † 1893, St. Petersburg
Giuseppe Verdi
* 1813, Roncole - † 1901, Mailand
Heitor Villa-Lobos
* 1887, Rio de Janeiro - † 1959, Rio de Janeiro
Richard Wagner
* 1813, Leipzig - † 1883, Venice
Carl Maria von Weber
* 1786, Eutin - † 1826, London
Anton Webern
* 1883, Vienna - † 1945, Mittersill
Iannis Xenakis
* 1922, Brăila - † 2001, Paris
Alexander von Zemlinsky
* 1871, Vienna - † 1942, Larchmont
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