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a celebration of the wide world of classical composers

illustrated by David Lee Csicsko
with text by Emi Ferguson and Nicholas 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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