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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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Modest Mussorgsky

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Modest Mussorgsky (21 March 1839 – 28 March 1881) was a Russian romantic composer, one of the group known as The Five, who strove to achieve a uniquely Russian musical identity, ...

Sergei Rachmaninoff

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Sergei Vasilievich Rachmaninoff, also Sergey Rachmaninov or Serge Rakhmaninov, (April 1, 1873 – March 28, 1943) was a Russian composer, pianist, and conductor. He is widely ...

Maurice Ravel

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Joseph-Maurice Ravel (March 7, 1875 – December 28, 1937) was a French composer and pianist, best known for his orchestral work, Boléro, and his famous 1922 orchestral arrangement ...

Alexander Borodin

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Alexander Porfiryevich Borodin (12 November 1833 – 27 February 1887) was a Russian Romantic composer and chemist of Georgian–Russian parentage. He was a member of the group of ...

Jean Sibelius

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Johan (Jean) Julius Christian Sibelius (December 8, 1865 – September 20, 1957) was a Finnish composer of classical music. Together with the work of Johan Ludvig Runeberg, ...

Giuseppe Verdi

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Giuseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi (10 October 1813 – 27 January 1901) was an Italian Romantic composer, mainly of opera. He was one of the most influential composers of the 19th ...

Georges Bizet

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Georges Bizet (Alexandre César Léopold Bizet; October 25, 1838 – June 3, 1875) was a French composer (mainly of operas) and pianist of the romantic era. He is best known for his ...