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Sylvius Leopold Weiss
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Johan Helmich Roman
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Louis Couperin
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Francesco Durante
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Johann Jakob Froberger
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Marc-Antoine Charpentier
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William Lawes
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Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber
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Antonio Caldara
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Johann Friedrich Fasch
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