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Louis Glass
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George Whitefield Chadwick
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William Sterndale Bennett
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Александр Сергеевич Танеев
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Милий Алексеевич Балакирев
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Emil Hartmann
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Johann Peter Emilius Hartmann
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Александр Тихонович Гречанинов
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Johann Simon Mayr
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