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Giuseppe Tartini
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Jean-Philippe Rameau
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Domenico Scarlatti
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Franz Joseph Haydn
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Alessandro Scarlatti
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Felix Mendelssohn
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Christoph Willibald Gluck
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Ludwig van Beethoven
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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