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a celebration of the wide world of classical composers

text by Nicholas Csicsko and Emi Ferguson
illustrated by David Lee Csicsko
foreword by Jamie Bernstein // introduction by LaRob K. Rafael
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Iconic Composers

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Hildegard von Bingen 1098-1179 

Guillaume de Machaut 1300-1377

Claudio Monteverdi 1567-1643

Barbara Strozzi 1619-1677

Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre 1665-1729

Antonio Vivaldi 1678-1741

George Frideric Handel 1685-1759

Johann Sebastian Bach 1685-1750

Ignatius Sancho 1729-1780

Joseph Haydn 1732-1809

Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges 1745-1799

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1756-1791

Ludwig van Beethoven 1770-1827

Franz Schubert 1797-1828

Clara & Robert Schumann C: 1819-1896 R: 1810-1856

Giuseppe Verdi 1813-1901

Johannes Brahms 1833-1897

Lili‘uokalani 1838-1917

Chiquinha Gonzaga 1847-1935

Gustav Mahler 1860-1911

Erik Satie 1866-1925

Claude Debussy 1862-1918

Harry T. Burleigh 1866-1949

Scott Joplin 1868-1917

Arnold Schoenberg 1874-1951

Maurice Ravel 1875-1937

Samuel Coleridge Taylor 1875-1912

Igor Stravinsky 1882-1971

Florence Price 1887-1953

Lili & Nadia Boulanger L: 1893-1918 N: 1887-1979

William Grant Still 1895-1978

Shirley Graham Du Bois 1896-1977

George Gershwin 1898-1937

John Cage 1912-1992

Leonard Bernstein 1918-1990

Galina Ustvolskaya 1919-2006

Astor Piazzolla 1921-1992

George Crumb 1929-2022

Tōru Takemitsu 1930-1996

Young-ja Lee 1931- 

Louis W. Ballard 1931-2007

John Williams 1932- 

Pauline Oliveros 1932-2016

Arvo Pärt 1935-

Philip Glass 1937-

Roscoe Mitchell 1940-

Julius Eastman 1940-1990

Meredith Monk 1942-

Tania León 1943-

Nobuo Uematsu 1959-

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Hildegard von Bingen

1098-1179

Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre

1665-1729

Ignatius Sancho

1729-1780

Ludwig van Beethoven

1770-1827

Clara Schumann

1819-1896

Gustav Mahler

1860-1911

Scott Joplin

1868-1917

Igor Stravinsky

1882-1971

William Grant Still

1895-1978

Leonard Bernstein

1918-1990

Tōru Takemitsu

1930-1996

John Williams

1932- 

Julius Eastman

1940-1990

Guillaume de Machaut

1300-1377

Antonio Vivaldi

1678-1741

Joseph Haydn

1732-1809

Franz Schubert

1797-1828

Johannes Brahms

1833-1897

Claude Debussy

1862-1918

Arnold Schoenberg

1874-1951

Florence Price

1887-1953

Shirley Graham Du Bois

1896-1977

Galina Ustvolskaya

1919-2006

Louis W. Ballard

1931-2007

Arvo Pärt

1935-

Meredith Monk

1942-

Claudio Monteverdi

1567-1643

Johann Sebastian Bach

1685-1750

Joseph Bologne

1745-1799

Robert Schumann

1810-1856

Lili‘uokalani

1838-1917

Erik Satie

1866-1925

Samuel Coleridge Taylor

1875-1912

Nadia Boulanger

1887-1979

George Gershwin

1898-1937

Astor Piazzolla

1921-1992

Young-ja Lee

1931- 

Philip Glass

1937-

Tania León

1943-

Barbara Strozzi

1619-1677

George Frideric Handel

1685-1759

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

1756-1791

Giuseppe Verdi

1813-1901

Chiquinha Gonzaga

1847-1935

Harry T. Burleigh

1866-1949

Maurice Ravel

1875-1937

Lili Boulanger

1893-1918

John Cage

1912-1992

George Crumb

1929-2022

Pauline Oliveros

1932-2016

Roscoe Mitchell

1940-

Nobuo Uematsu

1959-