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Richard Wagner (1813-1883)
composer, librettist, conductor, essayist, theatrical director, autobiographer, poet, pianist, music critic, diarist
- Leipzig University, Kreuzschule
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)
philosopher, poet, composer, pedagogue, classical philologist, music critic, classical scholar, playwright
- University of Bonn, Leipzig University
Jean Cocteau (1889-1963)
painter, playwright, film director, poet, actor, illustrator, librettist, voice actor, postage stamp designer, designer, photographer, composer, jewelry designer, ceramicist, director
- Lycée Condorcet
Ezra Pound (1885-1972)
poet, literary critic, composer, translator, autobiographer, economist, journalist, radio personality, literary historian
- University of Pennsylvania, Hamilton College
W. H. Auden (1907-1973)
poet, literary historian, playwright, librettist, literary critic, essayist, composer, translator
- University of Oxford, University of Oxford