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Witold Lutosławski
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Karl Amadeus Hartmann
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Karol Szymanowski
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Andrzej Panufnik
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Николай Яковлевич Мясковский
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Alexander von Zemlinsky
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Arthur Honegger
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Vagn Holmboe
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Henri Dutilleux
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