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Richard Wagner (1813-1883)
composer, librettist, conductor, essayist, theatrical director, autobiographer, poet, pianist, music critic, diarist
![Letters of Richard Wagner. Selected and edited by Wilhelm Altmann. Translated ... by M. M. Bozman. [With portraits.].](https://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/6875234-M.jpg)
Woody Allen (born 1935)
film director, comedian, film actor, film producer, clarinetist, playwright, jazz musician, character actor, journalist, composer, director, actor
Alejandro Jodorowsky (born 1929)
film director, playwright, film editor, philosopher, poet, theatrical director, mime artist, actor, composer, artist, puppeteer, sculptor, essayist, painter, drawer, director, film producer, comics creator, comics artist, penciller, tarotologist
Jean Cocteau (1889-1963)
painter, playwright, film director, poet, actor, illustrator, librettist, voice actor, postage stamp designer, designer, photographer, composer, jewelry designer, ceramicist, director
![Two screenplays: The blood of a poet [and] The testament of Orpheus](https://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/7099262-M.jpg)
John Lennon (1940-1980)
record producer, actor, guitarist, film producer, poet, composer, film actor, pianist, singer, painter, film director, public figure, peace activist, political activist, recording artist
E. T. A. Hoffmann (1776-1822)
composer, judge, caricaturist, painter, conductor, music critic, drawer, diarist, critic, director
Sor juana Inés de la Cruz (1651-1695)
poet, religious sister, mathematician, philosopher, composer, playwright, cloistered nun, nun
Gordon Parks (1912-2006)
film director, photographer, actor, photojournalist, journalist, film actor, fashion photographer, artist, film producer, composer, poet, director
