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Samuel Arnold was an English composer and organist.

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Giovanni Bononcini was an Italian Baroque composer, cellist, singer and teacher, one of a family of string players and composers.

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Benjamin Cooke was an English composer, organist and teacher.

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William Croft was an English composer and organist.

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Francesco Saverio Geminiani was an Italian violinist, composer, and music theorist. BBC Radio 3 once described him as "now largely forgotten, but in his time considered almost a musical god, deemed to be the equal of Handel and Corelli."

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Maurice Greene was an English composer and organist.

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Nicola Francesco Haym was an Italian opera librettist, composer, theatre manager and performer, literary editor and numismatist. He is best remembered for adapting texts into libretti for the London operas of George Frideric Handel and Giovanni Bononcini. Libretti that he provided for Handel included those for Giulio Cesare, Ottone, Flavio, Tamerlano, Rodelinda, and several others; for Bononcini, he produced two, Calfurnia and Astianatte.

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Johann Christoph Pepusch, also known as John Christopher Pepusch and Dr Pepusch, was a German-born composer. He spent most of his working life in England.

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Senesino was a celebrated Italian contralto castrato, particularly remembered today for his long collaboration with the composer George Frideric Handel.

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Pier Francesco Tosi was a castrato singer, composer, and writer on music. His Opinoni de' cantori antichi e moderni... was the first full-length treatise on singing and provides a unique glimpse into the technical and social aspects of Baroque vocal music.