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Robert SCHUMANN
German composer, pianist, and influential music critic
1810 - 1856 -
Alexander PUSHKIN
Russian poet, playwright, and novelist of the Romantic era
1799 - 1837 -
Johann STRAUSS
Austrian composer of light music
1825 - 1899 -
Fiodor (Fyodor) Dostoïevski (Dostoevsky)
Russian novelist, philosopher, short story writer, essayist, and journalist
1821 - 1881 -
Théodore GERICAULT
French painter and lithographer
1791 - 1824 -
Théodore CHASSERIAU
French Romantic painter
1819 - 1856 -
Emily BRONTE
English novelist and poet who is best known for her only novel, Wuthering Heights, now considered a classic of English literature
1818 - 1848 -
Jacques-Louis DAVID
French painter in the Neoclassical style
1748 - 1825 -
Charles DICKENS
English writer and social critic
1812 - 1870 -
Richard WAGNER
German composer, conductor, theatre director and polemicist
1813 - 1883 -
Gustave COURBET
French painter who led the Realist movement in 19th-century French painting
1819 - 1877 -
Johann Wolfgang VON GOETHE
German writer, pictorial artist, biologist, theoretical physicist, and polymath
1749 - 1832 -
Georges BIZET
French composer
1838 - 1875 -
Edgar Allan POE
American author, poet, editor and literary critic
1809 - 1849 -
Frédéric CHOPIN
Polish composer and virtuoso pianist
1810 - 1849 -
Victor HUGO
French poet, novelist, and dramatist of the Romantic movement
1802 - 1885 -
Ludwig van BEETHOVEN
German composer and pianist
1770 - 1827 -
Benito María de los Dolores PÉREZ y GALDÓS
Spanish realist novelist
1843 - 1920 -
Jean-Honoré FRAGONARD
French painter and printmaker
1732 - 1806 -
Jules MASSENET
French composer
1842 - 1912