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Francesco Mancini
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Matthew Locke
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Johann Gottlieb Janitsch
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Johann Gottlieb Graun
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Christoph Schaffrath
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Philipp Heinrich Erlebach
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Michel Blavet
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Johann Kuhnau
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Christopher Simpson
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