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An Evening at the Opera
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A Music Lesson
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Grace Bumbry
American opera singer
Jakub Józef Orliński
Jakub Józef Orliński
Polish countertenor singer
La Julia Rhea
American singer
Harry Lawrence Freeman
American composer and conductor
Ludwig van Beethoven
Ludwig van Beethoven
German composer
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Austrian composer
Giuseppe Verdi
Giuseppe Verdi
Italian composer
Joseph Haydn
Joseph Haydn
Austrian composer
Richard Wagner
Richard Wagner
German composer
George Gershwin
George Gershwin
American composer
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Russian composer
Strozzi, Bernardo: portrait of Claudio Monteverdi
Claudio Monteverdi
Italian composer and musician
Gluck
Christoph Willibald Gluck
German composer
Hector Berlioz
Hector Berlioz
French composer
Igor Stravinsky
Igor Stravinsky
Russian composer
Gustav Mahler
Gustav Mahler
Austrian composer
Sergey Prokofiev
Sergey Prokofiev
Russian composer
George Frideric Handel
George Frideric Handel
German-English composer
Poet John Dryden
John Dryden
British author
Arnold Schoenberg
Arnold Schoenberg
American composer

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