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Ludwig van Beethoven
German composer (1770-1827)
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was a Classical composer and musician. He completed more than 800 works in his life—including outstanding examples of most of the genres of his time: symphonies, concertos, chamber music, opera, and choral music.
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Friedrich Nietzsche
German philosopher (1844-1900)
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René Descartes
French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist (1596–1650)
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Genevan philosopher, writer, and composer (1712-1778)
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Richard Wagner
German composer (1813–1883)
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Frédéric Chopin
Polish composer and pianist (1810–1849)
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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Russian composer (1840–1893)
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Giuseppe Verdi
Italian opera composer (1813–1901)
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Franz Schubert
Austrian composer (1797–1828)
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Antonio Vivaldi
Italian composer and violinist (1678-1741)
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Igor Stravinsky
Russian composer (1882–1971)
Johannes Brahms thumbnail
Johannes Brahms
German composer (1833–1897)
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Joseph Haydn
Austrian composer (1732–1809)
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George Frideric Handel
German-British Baroque composer (1685–1759)
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Antonín Dvořák
Czech composer (1841–1904)
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Gustav Mahler
Austrian late-Romantic composer (1860–1911)
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Giacomo Puccini
Italian opera composer (1858–1924)
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Boris Pasternak
Russian writer (1890–1960)
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Hector Berlioz
French composer and conductor (1803–1869)
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Robert Schumann
German composer, pianist and critic (1810–1856)
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Claude Debussy
French classical composer (1862–1918)
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Franz Liszt
Hungarian romantic composer and virtuoso pianist (1811-1886)
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Frederick II of Prussia
King of Prussia from 1740 to 1786 (1712-1786)
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Felix Mendelssohn
German composer, pianist, organist and conductor of Jewish descent (1809-1847)
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Henry VIII
Henry VIII was King of England from 22 April 1509 until his death in 1547. After the Pope refused to annul his marriage to Catherine of Aragon, Henry passed legislation that severed England and Ireland from the Roman Catholic Church and established the monarch as Supreme Head of the Church of England, initiating the English Reformation. He subsequently married five more times; two marriages were annulled, and two wives were executed.
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Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
Italian Renaissance composer (c. 1525–1594)
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William Herschel
German-born British astronomer and composer (1738–1822)
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Hildegard of Bingen
German Benedictine abbess, polymath, mystic and Doctor of Church (1098–1179)
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Edvard Grieg
Norwegian composer and pianist (1843–1907)
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Gabriele D'Annunzio
Italian writer, poet, playwright, soldier and politician (1863-1938)
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Gioachino Rossini
Italian opera composer (1792–1868)
Maurice Ravel thumbnail
Maurice Ravel
French composer (1875–1937)
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Dmitri Shostakovich
Soviet composer and pianist (1906-1975)
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Jean Sibelius
Finnish composer (1865–1957)
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Jacques Offenbach
German-born French composer (1819–1880)
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Georges Bizet
French composer (1838–1875)
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Niccolò Paganini
Italian violinist and composer (1782–1840)
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Anne Boleyn
second wife of Henry VIII of England (died 1536)
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Béla Bartók
Hungarian composer and pianist (1881–1945)
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Ambrose
Ambrose of Milan (; 4 April 397), canonized as Saint Ambrose, was a theologian and statesman who served as Bishop of Milan from 374 to 397.
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Isabelle de Charrière
Dutch French-language writer and composer (1740-1805)
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Sergei Prokofiev
Russian and Soviet pianist, composer and conductor (1891–1953)
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Donald Knuth
American computer scientist and mathematician (born 1938)
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Bedřich Smetana
Czech composer (1824–1884)
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viola
The viola ( , () ) is a string instrument of the violin family, and is usually bowed when played. The viola is slightly larger than the violin and has a lower sound. Since the 18th century, it has been the middle or alto voice of the violin family, between the violin (which is tuned a perfect fifth higher) and the cello (which is tuned an octave lower). The strings from low to high are typically tuned to C3, G3, D4, and A4.
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Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Russian composer (1844–1908)
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Sergei Rachmaninoff
Russian composer, pianist and conductor (1873–1943)
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Alexander Borodin
Russian composer, doctor and chemist (1833–1887)
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Richard Strauss
German composer and orchestra director (1864–1949)
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Anton Bruckner
Austrian composer (1824-1896)
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Johann Strauss II
Austrian composer (1825-1899)
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Duke Ellington
American jazz pianist and composer (1899–1974)
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Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky
Russian composer (1839–1881)
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Claudio Monteverdi
Italian composer, string player, choirmaster, and priest (1567–1643)
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Erik Satie
French composer and pianist (1866-1925)
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George Gershwin
American composer and pianist (1898–1937)
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Hermann von Helmholtz
German physicist and physiologist (1821-1894)
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Arnold Schoenberg
Austrian-Jewish American composer (1874-1951)
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Carl Maria von Weber
German Romantic composer (1786–1826)