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Joachim Raff
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Franz Paul Lachner
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Norbert Burgmuller
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Robert Fuchs
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George Onslow
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William Sterndale Bennett
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Eugen d'Albert
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Felix Woyrsch
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Bernhard Henrik Crusell
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