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Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
composer, pianist, music critic
- Conservatoire de Paris
Martin Luther (1483-1546)
translator, theologian, professor, lawyer, Bible translator, Protestant reformer, philosopher, pastor, preacher, composer, scribe, Catholic priest
- University of Erfurt
Ezra Pound (1885-1972)
poet, literary critic, composer, translator, autobiographer, economist, journalist, radio personality, literary historian
- University of Pennsylvania, Hamilton College
Theodor W. Adorno (1903-1969)
philosopher, composer, musicologist, sociologist, literary critic, music critic, aphorist, pianist, academic, aesthetician
- University of Oxford, Goethe University Frankfurt
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)
composer, librettist, conductor, choreographer, music educator, pianist, autobiographer, music critic, diarist, translator
- Saint Petersburg Conservatory, Imperial School of Jurisprudence
W. H. Auden (1907-1973)
poet, literary historian, playwright, librettist, literary critic, essayist, composer, translator
- University of Oxford, University of Oxford
E. T. A. Hoffmann (1776-1822)
composer, judge, caricaturist, painter, conductor, music critic, drawer, diarist, critic, director
- University of Königsberg