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See Book List See Scores Gustav Mahler
See Book List See Scores Felix Mendelssohn
See Book List Olivier Messiaen
See Book List See Scores Giacomo Meyerbeer
See Book List See Scores Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (2016-21)
See Book List Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (biographies only)
See Book List See Scores Modest Mussorgsky
See Book List See Scores Carl Nielsen
See Book List See Scores Jacques Offenbach
See Book List See Scores Niccolo Paganini
See Book List See Scores Hans Pfitzner
See Book List See Scores Francis Poulenc
See Book List See Scores Sergei Prokofiev
See Book List See Scores Giacomo Puccini
See Book List See Scores Sergei Rachmaninov
See Book List See Scores Maurice Ravel
See Book List See Scores Nickolai Rimsky-Korsakov
See Book List See Scores Ned Rorem
See Book List See Scores Gioachino Rossini
See Book List See Scores Camille Saint-Saens
See Book List See Scores Arnold Schoenberg
See Book List See Scores Franz Schubert
See Book List See Scores Robert Schumann
See Book List See Scores Dmitri Shostakovich
See Book List See Scores Jean Sibelius
See Book List See Scores Richard Strauss
See Book List See Scores Igor Stravinsky
See Book List See Scores Arthur Sullivan
See Book List See Scores Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
See Book List See Scores Ralph Vaughan Williams
See Book List See Scores Giuseppi Verdi
See Book List See Scores Antonio Vivaldi
See Book List See Scores Richard Wagner