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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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Dietrich Buxtehude

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Dietrich (Diderik Hansen) Buxtehude (c. 1637 to 1639 — 9 May 1707) was a German/Danish organist and composer of the Baroque period. Not only the year, but also the country of his ...

Gioacchino Rossini

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Gioacchino Rossini (29 February 1792 – 13 November 1868) was an Italian opera composer, whose work includes the comic masterpiece The barber of Seville. After intensive work on ...

Béla Bartók

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Béla Bartók (March 25, 1881 – September 26, 1945) was one of the leading Hungarian and European composers of his time, proficient also as a pianist. Through his collection and ...

Paul Hindemith

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Paul Hindemith (16 November 1895 – 28 December 1963) was a German composer, violist, violinist, teacher, music theorist and conductor. His early works are in a late romantic ...

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (May 7, 1840 – November 6, 1893) was a Russian composer whose works included symphonies, operas, ballets, and chamber music. Some of these rate amongst ...

Hector Berlioz

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Hector Berlioz (11 December 1803 – 8 March 1869) was a French Romantic composer, best known for his compositions Symphonie fantastique and Grande messe des morts (Requiem). ...

Benjamin Britten

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Benjamin Britten (Edward Benjamin Britten, Baron Britten Of Aldeburgh, Nov. 22, 1913 - Dec. 4, 1976), leading British composer of the mid-20th century, whose operas are considered ...