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Dietrich Buxtehude
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Claudio Monteverdi
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Alessandro Scarlatti
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Georg Philipp Telemann
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Arcangelo Corelli
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Johann Sebastian Bach
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Georg Friedrich Händel
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Antonio Vivaldi
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Jean-Baptiste Lully
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