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Nicola Porpora
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Antonio Caldara
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Giovanni Alberto Ristori
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Leonardo Leo
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Pietro Torri
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Lorenzo Gaetano Zavateri
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Christoph Graupner
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Johann Adolf Hasse
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Charles Avison
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