Encyclopedia of Concert Music

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Encyclopedia of Concert Music

REFERENCE WORK

David Ewen, New York: Hill and Wang, 1959. With approximately 500 biographies.

People in this reference: 304
Those presently living: 3
Those deceased: 301

White: 294
Hispanic: 8
Multiracial: 2

United States: 75
France: 46
England: 35
Germany: 29
Italy: 29
Austria: 19
Russia: 15
Spain: 7
Ireland: 6
Ancient Greece: 5
Hungary: 5
Switzerland: 5
Czechia: 4
Poland: 4
Scotland: 3
Norway: 3
Denmark: 3
Belgium: 2
Brazil: 1
Netherlands: 1
(others): 7
Aeschylus
Isaac Albéniz
Hans Christian Andersen
Jean Anouilh
Ernest Ansermet
George Antheil
Aristophanes
Claudio Arrau
W. H. Auden
Leopold Auer
Georges Auric
Johann Sebastian Bach
Mily Balakirev
Samuel Barber
John Barbirolli
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(274 names omitted for brevity)
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Antonio Vivaldi
Hermann von Helmholtz
Richard Wagner
Alfred Wallenstein
Bruno Walter
William Walton
Carl Maria von Weber
Anton Webern
Felix Weingartner
Walt Whitman
Charles-Marie Widor
Henryk Wieniawski
Oscar Wilde
Hugo Wolf
Efrem Zimbalist

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