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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Austrian composer

Franz Schubert

Franz Schubert

Austrian composer

Johannes Brahms

Johannes Brahms

German composer

Antonín Dvořák.

Antonín Dvořák

Bohemian composer

Dmitri Shostakovich

Dmitri Shostakovich

Russian composer

Luigi Boccherini

Luigi Boccherini

Italian composer

César Franck, detail of a portrait by J. Rongier; in a private collection.

César Franck

Belgian-French composer

Ernest Bloch.

Ernest Bloch

American composer

Vincent Persichetti

American composer

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Sound Check: Musical Vocabulary Quiz