lifespans of composers

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Composer	Lifespan
Hildegard of Bingen	1098 - 1179
Léonin	1150 - 1201
Guillaume de Machaut	1300 - 1377
John Dunstable	1390 - 1453
Guillaume Du Fay	1397 - 1474
Johannes Tinctoris	1435 - 1509
Josquin des Prez	1450 - 1521
William Byrd	1540 - 1623
Claudio Monteverdi	1567 - 1643
Johann Pachelbel	1653 - 1706
Arcangelo Corelli	1653 - 1713
Henry Purcell	1659 - 1695
Antonio Vivaldi	1678 - 1741
Georg Philipp Telemann	1681 - 1757
Johann Sebastian Bach	1685 - 1750
Domenico Scarlatti	1685 - 1757
George Frideric Handel	1685 - 1759
Christoph Willibald Gluck	1714 - 1787
Joseph Haydn	1732 - 1809
Luigi Boccherini	1743 - 1805
Joseph Bologne	1745 - 1799
Carl Stamitz	1745 - 1801
Antonio Salieri	1750 - 1825
Muzio Clementi	1752 - 1832
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart	1756 - 1791
Ludwig van Beethoven	1770 - 1827
Niccolò Paganini	1782 - 1840
Carl Maria von Weber	1786 - 1851
Carl Czerny	1791 - 1857
Gioachino Rossini	1792 - 1868
Franz Schubert	1797 - 1828
Vincenzo Bellini	1801 - 1835
Hector Berlioz	1803 - 1869
Mikhail Glinka	1804 - 1857
Johann Strauss I	1804 - 1849
Fanny Mendelssohn	1805 - 1847
Felix Mendelssohn	1809 - 1847
Frédéric Chopin	1810 - 1849
Otto Nicolai	1810 - 1849
Robert Schumann	1810 - 1856
Franz Liszt	1811 - 1886
Richard Wagner	1813 - 1883
Giuseppe Verdi	1813 - 1901
Charles Gounod	1818 - 1893
Jacques Offenbach	1819 - 1880
Clara Schumann	1819 - 1896
César Franck	1822 - 1890
Édouard Lalo	1823 - 1892
Anton Bruckner	1824 - 1896
Bedřich Smetana	1824 - 1884
Johann Strauss II	1825 - 1899
Alexander Borodin	1833 - 1887
Johannes Brahms	1833 - 1897
César Cui	1835 - 1918
Camille Saint-Saëns	1835 - 1921
Georges Bizet	1838 - 1875
Max Bruch	1838 - 1920
Modest Mussorgsky	1839 - 1881
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky	1840 - 1893
Antonín Dvořák	1841 - 1904
Edvard Grieg	1843 - 1907
David Popper	1843 - 1907
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov	1844 - 1908
Gabriel Fauré	1845 - 1924
Moritz Moszkowski	1854 - 1925
John Philip Sousa	1854 - 1932
Edward Elgar	1857 - 1934
Giacomo Puccini	1858 - 1924
Gustav Mahler	1860 - 1911
Claude Debussy	1862 - 1918
Richard Strauss	1864 - 1949
Paul Dukas	1865 - 1935
Jean Sibelius	1865 - 1957
Erik Satie	1866 - 1925
Amy Beach	1867 - 1944
Alexander Scriabin	1872 - 1915
Ralph Vaughan Williams	1872 - 1958
Sergei Rachmaninoff	1873 - 1943
Gustav Holst	1874 - 1934
Charles Ives	1874 - 1954
Arnold Schoenberg	1874 - 1951
Maurice Ravel	1875 - 1937
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor	1875 - 1912
Béla Bartók	1881 - 1945
Igor Stravinsky	1882 - 1971
Anton Webern	1883 - 1945
Alban Berg	1885 - 1935
Nadia Boulanger	1887 - 1979
Sergei Prokofiev	1891 - 1953
Paul Hindemith	1895 - 1963
William Grant Still	1895 - 1978
Virgil Thomson	1896 - 1989
Erich Wolfgang Korngold	1897 - 1957
George Gershwin	1898 - 1937
Francis Poulenc	1899 - 1963
Aaron Copland	1900 - 1990
Aram Khachaturian	1903 - 1978
Dmitri Shostakovich	1906 - 1975
Olivier Messiaen	1908 - 1992
Samuel Barber	1910 - 1981
John Cage	1912 - 1992
Benjamin Britten	1913 - 1976
Leonard Bernstein	1918 - 1990
Pierre Boulez	1925 - 2016
Steve Reich	1936 -
Philip Glass	1937 -
John Adams	1947 -
Jennifer Higdon	1962 -