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Luigi Nono
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Salvatore Sciarrino
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Karl Rossmann
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Annie Gosfield
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Tony Conrad
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Cornelius Cardew
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Conlon Nancarrow
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Gottfried Michael Koenig
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Maryanne Amacher
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Hans Werner Henze
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