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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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Gustav Mahler

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Gustav Mahler (7 July 1860 – 18 May 1911) was an Austrian late-Romantic composer of huge symphonies, as well as songs and song-cycles. Mahler wrote music of great intensity and ...

Richard Strauss

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Richard Strauss (June 11, 1864 – September 8, 1949) was a leading German composer of of the late Romantic and early modern eras, particularly noted for his tone poems and operas. ...

Giacomo Puccini

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Giacomo Puccini (full name Giacomo Antonio Domenico Michele Secondo Maria Puccini, 22 December 1858 – 29 November 1924) was the last of the great line of Italian repertoire opera ...

Georg Philipp Telemann

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Georg Philipp Telemann (14 March 1681 – 25 June 1767) was a German Baroque composer and multi-instrumentalist. Almost completely self-taught in music, he became a composer against ...

Antonin Dvorak

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Antonin Leopold Dvorak (Antonín Dvořák in Czech, September 8, 1841 – May 1, 1904) was a Czech composer of late Romantic music, who employed the idioms of the folk music of Moravia ...

Johannes Brahms

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German composer, pianist, and conductor Johannes Brahms (7 May 1833 – 3 April 1897) was one of the most significant composers of the nineteenth century. His works combine the warm ...

Carl Orff

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Carl Orff (July 10, 1895 – March 29, 1982) was a German composer, conductor and teacher primarily known for his contributions to music education. His most famous work is the ...