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Benjamin Franklin
American author, printer, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, inventor, civic activist, statesman, diplomat, Founding Father
Frederick the Great
King of Prussia
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Genevan philosopher, writer, and composer
Leonhard Euler
Swiss mathematician
Christopher Smart
English poet
Petros Peloponnesios
Greek cantor, Teacher at the Patriarchal Music School
Christoph Willibald von Gluck
German opera composer
Joseph Haydn
Austrian composer
Duchess Maria Antonia of Bavaria
German composer, opera singer and librettist
William Herschel
German-born British astronomer and composer
Chevalier de Saint-Georges
French musician
Wilhelmine of Prussia, Margravine of Brandenburg-Bayreuth
Margravine of Brandenburg-Bayreuth
Pierre Beaumarchais
French playwright diplomat and polymath
Gottfried van Swieten
Dutch diplomat, librettist and music patron
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
German composer
Anna Amalia, Abbess of Quedlinburg
Princess-Abbess of Quedlinburg
John Williams
Musician
Barbara of Portugal
Queen of Spain
Samuel Foote
British dramatist
Pehr Hörberg
Swedish artist
Duchess Anna Amalia of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel
German princess, composer
Maximilian III Joseph, Elector of Bavaria
Duke of Bavaria
Charles Burney
English music historian
Niccolò Jommelli
Italian composer
Wilhelm Friedemann Bach
German composer, organist, harpsichordist
Carl Friedrich Abel
German composer
Antonio Sacchini
Italian opera composer
Giuseppe Cambini
Italian musician
Charles Dibdin
British musician, songwriter, dramatist, novelist and actor
Baldassare Galuppi
Italian composer
Dom Bédos de Celles
French organ builder
Gregory Skovoroda
Ukrainian philosopher
Carl Michael Bellman
Swedish poet, songwriter, composer and performer
Gottfried van Swieten
Diplomat in the Austrian Empire
François-André Danican Philidor
French composer and chess player
Francis Hopkinson
American politician, judge, and author
Michael Arne
British composer
Michael Haydn
Austrian composer, brother of Joseph Haydn,
Josef Mysliveček
Czech composer
Giovanni Paisiello
Neapolitan (Italian) composer of the Classical era