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Felix Mendelssohn
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Jean Sibelius
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Bernard Parmegiani
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Pierre Schaeffer
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Hildegard von Bingen
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Frédéric Chopin
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Guillaume de Machaut
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Albert Ayler
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Josquin des Prez
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Georg Philipp Telemann
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