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Aaron Copland

CBS Television

Original image and source · Public domain · Site image

Alban Berg

Max Fenichel

Original image and source · Public domain · Site image

Alberto Ginastera

Annemarie Heinrich

Original image and source · Public domain · Site image

Alexander Scriabin

Charles-Louis Klary

Original image and source · Public domain · Site image

Anton Bruckner

Josef Büche

Original image and source · Public domain · Site image

Anton Webern

Original image and source · Public domain · Site image

Antonín Dvořák

Unknown author Unknown author

Original image and source · Public domain · Site image

Antonio Vivaldi

Unidentified painter

Original image and source · Public domain · Site image

Aram Khachaturian

Unknown author Unknown author

Original image and source · Public domain · Site image

Arnold Schoenberg

Anonymous Unknown author

Original image and source · Public domain · Site image

Arvo Pärt

Woesinger

Original image and source · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Site image

Bedřich Smetana

Bain News Service, publisher

Original image and source · Public domain · Site image

Béla Bartók

Unknown author Unknown author

Original image and source · Public domain · Site image

Benjamin Britten

Unknown author Unknown author

Original image and source · Public domain · Site image

Bizet

Étienne Carjat

Original image and source · Public domain · Site image

Bohuslav Martinů

Unknown author Unknown author

Original image and source · CC BY-SA 3.0 cz · Site image

Camille Saint-Saëns

Charles Reutlinger (1816–81)

Original image and source · Public domain · Site image

Carl Maria von Weber

Caroline Bardua

Original image and source · Public domain · Site image

Carl Nielsen

Georg Lindstrøm 1866-1923 Restored by Adam Cuerden

Original image and source · Public domain · Site image

César Franck

Pierre Petit

Original image and source · Public domain · Site image

Charles Ives

Clara Sipprell

Original image and source · Public domain · Site image

Clara Schumann

Franz Hanfstaengl

Original image and source · Public domain · Site image

Claude Debussy

Adam Cuerden

Original image and source · Public domain · Site image

Dmitri Kabalevsky

Главархив Москвы

Original image and source · CC BY 4.0 · Site image

Dmitri Shostakovich

Unknown author Unknown author

Original image and source · Public domain · Site image

E.Grieg

Elliott & Fry

Original image and source · Public domain · Site image

Édouard Lalo

Pierre Petit

Original image and source · Public domain · Site image

Edward Elgar

Unknown author Unknown author

Original image and source · Public domain · Site image

Ernő Dohnányi

Bain News Service, publisher

Original image and source · Public domain · Site image

Felix Mendelssohn

Eduard Magnus

Original image and source · Public domain · Site image

Francis Poulenc

Unknown author Unknown author

Original image and source · Public domain · Site image

Franz Liszt

Herman Biow

Original image and source · Public domain · Site image

Franz Schubert

Wilhelm August Rieder

Original image and source · Public domain · Site image

Frédéric Chopin

Louis-Auguste Bisson

Original image and source · Public domain · Site image

Frederick Delius

Unknown author Unknown author

Original image and source · Public domain · Site image

G. Gershwin

Carl Van Vechten

Original image and source · Public domain · Site image

Gabriel Fauré

Eugène Pirou

Original image and source · Public domain · Site image

George Frideric Handel

Attributed to Balthasar Denner

Original image and source · Public domain · Site image

Gustav Holst

Herbert Lambert

Original image and source · Public domain · Site image

Hector Berlioz

w:August Prinzhofer (1816–1885)

Original image and source · Public domain · Site image

Heitor Villa‐Lobos

Unknown author Unknown author

Original image and source · Public domain · Site image

Henryk Mikolaj Gorecki

Lech Kowalski & Włodzimierz Pniewski

Original image and source · Public domain · Site image

Hugo Alfvén

Unknown author Unknown author

Original image and source · Public domain · Site image

Igor Stravinsky

George Grantham Bain Collection

Original image and source · Public domain · Site image

Jean Sibelius

Photographerː Daniel Nyblin

Original image and source · Public domain · Site image

Johann Nepomuk Hummel

Möller?

Original image and source · Public domain · Site image

Johann Sebastian Bach

Elias Gottlob Haussmann

Original image and source · Public domain · Site image

Johannes Brahms

C. Brasch , Berlin ( biography )

Original image and source · Public domain · Site image

Joseph Haydn

Thomas Hardy

Original image and source · Public domain · Site image

Jules Massenet

Eugène Pirou (1841-1909). Photographer Restored by Adam Cuerden

Original image and source · Public domain · Site image

Karol Szymanowski

George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress)

Original image and source · Public domain · Site image

Krzysztof Penderecki

Adam Kumiszcza

Original image and source · CC BY 3.0 · Site image

Leonard Bernstein

Jack Mitchell

Original image and source · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Site image

Leopold Mozart

Pietro Antonio Lorenzoni

Original image and source · Public domain · Site image

Leoš Janáček

Unkonwn

Original image and source · Public domain · Site image

Louis Spohr

autoprotrait

Original image and source · Public domain · Site image

Ludwig van Beethoven

Joseph Karl Stieler

Original image and source · Public domain · Site image

Mahler

Moritz Nähr

Original image and source · Public domain · Site image

Manuel de Falla

Unknown author Unknown author

Original image and source · Public domain · Site image

Maurice Ravel

Unknown author Unknown author The image holder, the Bibliothèque nationale de France has not identified a photographer. (Follow link and click on "Detailed information".)

Original image and source · Public domain · Site image

Max Bruch

Original image and source · Public domain · Site image

Max Reger

Rudolf Dührkoop

Original image and source · Public domain · Site image

Michael Haydn

Franz Xaver Hornöck

Original image and source · Public domain · Site image

Mily Balakirev

Unknown author Unknown author

Original image and source · Public domain · Site image

Modest Mussorgsky

Original image and source · Public domain · Site image

Niccolò Paganini

John Whittle (active in Preston, early 19th century)

Original image and source · Public domain · Site image

Nicolai Myaskovsky

Unknown author Unknown author

Original image and source · Public domain · Site image

Nikolai Rimsky‐Korsakov

Valentin Serov

Original image and source · Public domain · Site image

Ottorino Respighi

Becker & Maass / Marie Boehm

Original image and source · Public domain · Site image

Paul Dukas

Original image and source · Public domain · Site image

Paul Hindemith

Foto vom Hindemith-Institut als Rechteinhaber unter GFDL zur Verfügung gestellt Hochgeladen nach de.wikipedia von de:Benutzer:Axel Hindemith

Original image and source · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Site image

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Émile Reutlinger

Original image and source · Public domain · Site image

Ralph Vaughan Williams

James Bacon and Sons, Leeds

Original image and source · Public domain · Site image

Richard Strauss

Unknown author Unknown author

Original image and source · Public domain · Site image

Richard Wagner

Franz Hanfstaengl

Original image and source · Public domain · Site image

Robert Schumann

Josef Kriehuber

Original image and source · Public domain · Site image

Samuel Barber

Carl Van Vechten

Original image and source · Public domain · Site image

Sergei Prokofiev

Bain News Service, publisher

Original image and source · Public domain · Site image

Sergei Rachmaninoff

Kubey-Rembrandt Studios (Philadephia, Pennsylvania)

Original image and source · Public domain · Site image

William Walton

AP Wirephoto

Original image and source · Public domain · Site image

Witold Lutosławski

Original image and source · Public domain · Site image

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Johann Nepomuk della Croce

Original image and source · Public domain · Site image

Zoltán Kodály

Unknown author Unknown author

Original image and source · Public domain · Site image