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Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
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Domenico Scarlatti
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Claudio Monteverdi
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Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe
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John Dowland
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Christoph Willibald Gluck
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Antonio Vivaldi
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Luigi Boccherini
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Gustav Mahler
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