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Ferruccio Busoni
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William Grant Still
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Ernest John Moeran
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G. I. Gurdjieff
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Reynaldo Hahn
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Erwin Schulhoff
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Peter Warlock
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Alexander von Zemlinsky
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George Crumb
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