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Johann Friedrich Fasch
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Giuseppe Torelli
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Michael Haydn
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Carl Stamitz
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William Boyce
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Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber
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Johann Nepomuk Hummel
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Dietrich Buxtehude
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William Lawes
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