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Ludwig van Beethoven
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Niccolò Paganini
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Franz Schubert
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Hector Berlioz
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Felix Mendelssohn
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Frédéric Chopin
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Robert Schumann
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Richard Wagner
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Giuseppe Verdi
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Clara Schumann
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Johannes Brahms
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Antonín Dvořák
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Adolphe Sax invents the Saxophone
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Giacomo Puccini
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Gustav Mahler
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Claude Debussy
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Jean Sibelius
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Franz Liszt completes his oratorio Christus
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Das Rheingold by Richard Wagner premieres in Munich
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Richard Wagner concludes Götterdämmerung, finishing The Ring Cycle
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John Philip Sousa makes first recordings with Columbia Phonograph Company