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Giovanni Gabrieli
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Dietrich Buxtehude
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William Lawes
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Girolamo Frescobaldi
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Orlando Gibbons
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Marc-Antoine Charpentier
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Johann Hermann Schein
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Jan Dismas Zelenka
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Samuel Scheidt
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