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An 1839 oil-on-canvas portrait by Henri Lehmann of the Hungarian composer and pianist Franz Liszt (1811-1886). The dashing Liszt caused a sensation in the salons of Paris with his virtuoso piano playing and unique style of...

A 1723 oil on canvas portrait based on an engraving by François Morellon La Cave of the Italian composer Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741). (International Museum and Library of Bologna)

A 1748 oil on canvas portrait by Elias Gottlob Haussmann of the German composer Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750). (Museum of City History, Leipzig, Germany)

An 1820 oil-on-canvas portrait by Joseph Karl Stieler of the German composer Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827). (Beethoven House, Bonn)

An 1893 oil-on-canvas portrait by Nikolai Dmitriyevich Kuznetsov of the Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893). (Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow)

A 1908 photograph of the French composer Claude Debussy (1962-1918). Atelier Nadar, Paris. (Bibliothèque nationale de France)

An 1832 portrait by Émile Signol of the French composer Hector Berlioz (1803-1869). ( Villa Medici, Rome)

A 1950 photograph of the Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975). Photograph taken by Roger Rössing and Renate Rössing. (Deutsche Fotothek‎)

Portrait of Niccolò Paganini, lithographic print by Charles George Lewis after Edwin Landseer, 1849. Depicted here is the famed Italian violinist and composer Niccolò Paganini (1782-1840) in three-quarter length and...

A 1920s photograph of the Russian composer Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971). (George Grantham Bain Picture Agency, Library of Congress)