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Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck
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Giovanni Gabrieli
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Paul Hofhaimer
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Girolamo Frescobaldi
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John Bull
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Biagio Marini
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Christoph Graupner
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Heinrich Finck
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Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer
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