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Karlheinz Stockhausen
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Leoš Janáček
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Pierre Schaeffer
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Francis Poulenc
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Benjamin Britten
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Thomas Adès
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Pierre Boulez
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Edgard Varèse
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Валентин Васильович Сильвестров
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