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Piece #1
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Piece #2
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Piece #3
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Lifespan
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Nationality
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Composer
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L'Orfeo
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Vespers of 1610
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L'incoronazione di Poppea
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1567-1643
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Italian
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Claudio Monteverdi
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Concerti Grossi Op. 6
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Violin Sonatas Op. 5
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Christmas Concerto
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1653-1713
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Italian
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Arcangelo Corelli
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Dido and Aeneas
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The Fairy Queen
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Music for the Funeral of Queen Mary
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1659-1695
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British
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Henry Purcell
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The Four Seasons
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Gloria in D major
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Mandolin Concerto in C major
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1678-1741
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Italian
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Antonio Vivaldi
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The Well-Tempered Clavier
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Brandenburg Concertos
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Mass in B minor
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1685-1750
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German
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Johann Sebastian Bach
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555 Keyboard Sonatas
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Stabat Mater
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Salve Regina
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1685-1757
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Italian
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Domenico Scarlatti
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Messiah
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Water Music
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Music for the Royal Fireworks
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1685-1759
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German/British
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George Frideric Handel
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Tafelmusik
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Trumpet Concerto in D major
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Water Music (Hamburg)
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1681-1767
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German
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Georg Philipp Telemann
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Orfeo ed Euridice
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Alceste
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Iphigénie en Tauride
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1714-1787
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German
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Christoph Willibald Gluck
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Symphony No. 94 ('Surprise')
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The Creation
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String Quartet ('Emperor')
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1732-1809
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Austrian
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Joseph Haydn
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Requiem in D minor
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The Magic Flute
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Piano Concerto No. 21
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1756-1791
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Austrian
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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Moonlight Sonata
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Symphony No. 9 (Ode to Joy)
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Für Elise
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1770-1827
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German
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Ludwig van Beethoven
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Ave Maria
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Die schöne Müllerin
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Symphony No. 8 ('Unfinished')
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1797-1828
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Austrian
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Franz Schubert
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Symphonie fantastique
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Harold in Italy
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The Damnation of Faust
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1803-1869
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French
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Hector Berlioz
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
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Violin Concerto in E minor
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Symphony No. 4 ('Italian')
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1809-1847
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German
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Felix Mendelssohn
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Ballade No. 1 in G minor
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Nocturne in E-flat major, Op. 9 No. 2
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Piano Sonata No. 2 ('Funeral March')
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1810-1849
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Polish
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Frederic Chopin
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Piano Concerto in A minor
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Dichterliebe
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Symphony No. 1 ('Spring')
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1810-1856
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German
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Robert Schumann
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Hungarian Rhapsodies
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Piano Sonata in B minor
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Liebestraum No. 3
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1811-1886
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Hungarian
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Franz Liszt
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The Ring Cycle
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Tristan und Isolde
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Ride of the Valkyries
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1813-1883
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German
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Richard Wagner
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Aida
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Rigoletto
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La Traviata
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1813-1901
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Italian
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Giuseppe Verdi
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Symphony in D minor
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Violin Sonata in A major
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Panis Angelicus
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1822-1890
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Belgian
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César Franck
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Symphony No. 7
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Symphony No. 4 ('Romantic')
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Te Deum
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1824-1896
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Austrian
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Anton Bruckner
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Symphony No. 1
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Piano Concerto No. 2
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A German Requiem
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1833-1897
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German
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Johannes Brahms
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The Carnival of the Animals
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Symphony No. 3 ('Organ')
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Danse Macabre
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1835-1921
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French
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Camille Saint-Saëns
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Swan Lake
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The Nutcracker
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Piano Concerto No. 1
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1840-1893
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Russian
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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
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Symphony No. 9 ('From the New World')
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Cello Concerto in B minor
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String Quartet No. 12 ('American')
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1841-1904
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Czech
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Antonín Dvořák
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Peer Gynt Suite No. 1
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In the Hall of the Mountain King
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Piano Concerto in A minor
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1843-1907
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Norwegian
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Edvard Grieg
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Scheherazade
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Flight of the Bumblebee
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Capriccio Espagnol
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1844-1908
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Russian
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Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
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Requiem
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Pavane
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Élégie
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1845-1924
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French
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Gabriel Fauré
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Sinfonietta
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Jenůfa
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Glagolitic Mass
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1854-1928
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Czech
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Leoš Janáček
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Enigma Variations
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Cello Concerto in E minor
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Pomp and Circumstance Marches
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1857-1934
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British
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Edward Elgar
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La Bohème
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Tosca
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Madama Butterfly
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1858-1924
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Italian
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Giacomo Puccini
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Symphony No. 5
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Symphony No. 9
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Symphony No. 2 ('Resurrection')
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1860-1911
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Austrian
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Gustav Mahler
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Clair de lune
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La mer
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Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune
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1862-1918
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French
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Claude Debussy
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Also sprach Zarathustra
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Der Rosenkavalier
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Four Last Songs
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1864-1949
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German
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Richard Strauss
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Symphony No. 4 ('The Inextinguishable')
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Flute Concerto
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Clarinet Concerto
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1865-1931
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Danish
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Carl Nielsen
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Finlandia
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The Swan of Tuonela
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Violin Concerto in D minor
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1865-1957
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Finnish
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Jean Sibelius
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The Lark Ascending
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Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis
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A London Symphony
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1872-1958
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British
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Ralph Vaughan Williams
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Piano Concerto No. 2
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Piano Concerto No. 3
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Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini
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1873-1943
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Russian
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Sergei Rachmaninov
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The Planets
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St Paul's Suite
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The Perfect Fool
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1874-1934
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British
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Gustav Holst
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Boléro
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Piano Concerto in G major
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La valse
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1875-1937
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French
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Maurice Ravel
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Nights in the Gardens of Spain
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El amor brujo
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The Three-Cornered Hat
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1876-1946
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Spanish
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Manuel de Falla
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Concerto for Orchestra
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String Quartet No. 4
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Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta
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1881-1945
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Hungarian
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Béla Bartók
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The Rite of Spring
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The Firebird
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Petrushka
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1882-1971
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Russian
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Igor Stravinsky
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Peter and the Wolf
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Romeo and Juliet
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Piano Concerto No. 3
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1891-1953
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Russian
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Sergei Prokofiev
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Rhapsody in Blue
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An American in Paris
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Porgy and Bess
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1898-1937
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American
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George Gershwin
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Appalachian Spring
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Fanfare for the Common Man
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Rodeo
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1900-1990
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American
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Aaron Copland
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Symphony No. 5
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String Quartet No. 8
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Symphony No. 7 ('Leningrad')
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1906-1975
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Russian
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Dmitri Shostakovich
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Adagio for Strings
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Violin Concerto
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Knoxville: Summer of 1915
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1910-1981
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American
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Samuel Barber
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War Requiem
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Peter Grimes
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The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra
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1913-1976
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British
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Benjamin Britten
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