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Carl Stamitz
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Michael Haydn
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Georg Matthias Monn
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Johann Friedrich Fasch
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Pietro Antonio Locatelli
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Francesco Geminiani
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Leopold Hofmann
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Johann Nepomuk Hummel
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Christian Cannabich
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