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Relating to public figures or personalities, celebrities or otherwise, who have made significant progress in their particular professional field, or who have helped or influenced wider society to an outstanding degree.

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Joseph Haydn

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Austrian composer Franz Joseph Haydn (March 31 or April 1, 1732 – May 31, 1809) was one of the most prominent composers of the Classical music era, called the "Father of the ...

Richard Wagner

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Wilhelm Richard Wagner (22 May 1813 – 13 February 1883) was a German composer, conductor, theatre director and polemicist primarily known for his operas (or "music dramas", as ...

Georg Friedrich Händel

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German-born composer Georg Friedrich Händel (23 February 1685 – 14 April 1759) was one of the greatest composers of the late baroque period (1700-1750); he was strongly influenced ...

Antonio Vivaldi

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Antonio Lucio Vivaldi (4 March 1678 – 28 July 1741) was an Italian composer, priest, and virtuoso violinist. He learned violin from his father and spent much of his life teaching ...

Claude Debussy

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Achille Claude Debussy (22 August 1862 – 25 March 1918) was a French composer who developed a strongly individual style and also created a language that broke definitively with ...

Igor Stravinsky

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Igor Fyodorovitch Stravinsky (June 17, 1882 – April 6, 1971) was a Russian composer of modern classical music. He wrote works in the neo-classical and serialist styles, but he is ...

Felix Mendelssohn

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Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, generally known in English-speaking countries as Felix Mendelssohn (3 February 1809 – 4 November 1847) was a German composer, pianist, ...