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Georg Philipp Telemann
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Johann Sebastian Bach
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Claudio Monteverdi
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Giovanni Battista Pergolesi
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Jean-Philippe Rameau
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Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber
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Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
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Jean-Baptiste Lully
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Henry Purcell
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