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Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685 – 1750)
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Bartok, Bela (1881 – 1945)
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Bazzini, Antonio (1818 – 1897)
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Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770 – 1827)
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Bellini, Vincenzo (1801 – 1835)
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Berlioz, Hector (1803 – 1869)
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Bizet, Georges (1838 – 1875)
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Borodin, Alexander (1833 – 1887)
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Bowie, David (1947 – )
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Brahms, Johannes (1833 – 1897)
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Brel, Jacques (1929 – 1978)
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Britten, Benjamin (1913 – 1976)
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Bruckner, Anton (1824 – 1896)
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Cage, John (1912 – 1992)
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Chopin, Frederic (1810 – 1849)
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Copland, Aaron (1900 – 1990)
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Debussy, Claude (1862 – 1918)
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Delius, Frederick (1862 – 1934)
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Diamond, Neil (1941 – )
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Donizetti, Gaetano (1797 – 1848)
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Dukas, Paul (1865 – 1935)
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Dupre, Marcel (1886 – 1971)
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Dvorak, Antonin (1841 – 1904)
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Dylan, Bob (1941 – )
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Elfman, Danny (1953 – )
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Elgar, Sir Edward (1857 – 1934)
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Gershwin, George (1898 – 1937)
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Gilmour, David (1946 – )
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Goldsmith, Jerry (1929 – 2004)
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Gounod, Charles (1818 – 1893)
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Handel, George Frideric (1685 – 1759)
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Harrison, George (1943 – 2001)
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Holiday, Billie (1915 – 1959)
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Holloway, John (1948 – )
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Holst, Gustav (1874 – 1934)
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Howard, James Newton (1951 – )
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Ives, Charles (1874 – 1954)
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Jarre, Maurice-Alexis (1924 – 2009)
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Jewel (1974 – )
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Joplin, Scott (1867 – 1917)
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King, Carole (1942 – )
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Komeda, Krzysztof (1931 – 1969)
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Lady Gaga (1986 – )
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Lennon, John (1940 – 1980)
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Liszt, Franz (1811 – 1886)
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Mahler, Gustav (1860 – 1911)
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Marley, Bob (1945 – 1981)
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McCartney, Sir Paul (1942 – )
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McKennit, Loreena (1957 – )
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Mendelssohn, Felix (1809 – 1847)
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Messiaen, Olivier (1908 – 1992)
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Monteverdi, Claudio (1567 – 1643)
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Morrison, Jim (1943 – 1971)
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Morrison, Van (1945 – )
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Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756 – 1791)
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Mussorgsky, Modest (1839 – 1881)
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Nicks, Stevie (1948 – )
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Offenbach, Jacques (1819 – 1880)
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Oldfield, Mike (1953 – )
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Pachelbel, Johann (1653 -1706)
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Paganini, Niccolo (1782 – 1840)
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Poulenc, Francis (1899 – 1963)
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Poledouris, Basil (1945 – 2006)
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Presley, Elvis (1935 – 1977)
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Prokofiev, Sergei (1891 – 1953)
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Puccini, Giacomo (1858 – 1924)
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Rachmaninoff, Sergei (1873 – 1943)
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Ravel, Maurice (1875 – 1937)
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Reicha, Anton (1770 – 1836)
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Respighi, Ottorino (1879 – 1936)
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Rimsky-Korsokov, Nikolai (1844 – 1908)
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Rossini, Gioacchino (1792 – 1868)
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Saint-Saens, Camille (1835 – 1921)
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Schoenberg, Arnold (1874 – 1951)
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Schubert, Franz (1797 – 1828)
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Schumann, Clara (1819 – 1896)
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Shore, Howard (1946 – )
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Shostakovich, Dmitri (1906 – 1975)
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Sibelius, Jean (1865 – 1957)
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Simon, Paul (1941 – )
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Skriabin, Alexander (1872 – 1915)
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Strauss II, Johan (1825 – 1899)
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Stravinsky, Igor (1882 – 1971)
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Strauss, Richard (1864 – 1949)
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Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilyich (1840 – 1893)
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Townsend, Pete (1945 – )
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Vaughan Williams, Ralph (1872 – 1958)
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Verdi, Giuseppe (1813 – 1901)
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Vivaldi, Antonio (1678 – 1741)
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Von Biber, Heinrich Ignaz Franz (1644 – 1704)
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Von Bingen, Hildegard (1098 – 1179)
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Von Weber, Carl Maria (1786 – 1826)
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Wagner, Richard (1813 – 1883)
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Waters, Roger (1943 – )
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Waxman, Franz (1906 – 1967)
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Weill, Kurt (1900 – 1950)
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Williams, John (1932 – )
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Wilson, Brian (1942 – )
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Yanni (1954 – )
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Young, Neil (1945 – )
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Zimmer, Hans (1957 – )
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