Sir Arthur Seymour Sullivan

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Born 1842  --  Died 1900
corroborated with William S. Gilbert to write 14 Comic Operas.    Many orchestral overtures,   general songs and one of the most famous of all    favourite hymns that being   "Onward Christian Soldiers."
Two of Sir Arthurs final works were that of the opera "Ivanhoe" and "The Emerald Isle" which in fact was not completed by Sullivan, but by Sir Edward German, after Sullivan's death.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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Born 1756  --  Died 1791
An accomplish musician who   by his early teenage years,    was writing pieces for piano violin and harpsicord, together with the composition of oratorios, symphonies and operas.   He wrote Masonic music before being entered    into  the Craft, but from a Masonic point of view, one of his finest works would have to be  "Die Zauberflotethe"        
"The Magic Flute

John Philip Sousa



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Born 1854  --  Died 1932
By the age of six he was playing several instruments and had become an accomplished musician.    Published his first composition in the year of 1872 at the age of eighteen, called "Moonlight on the Potomac Waltzes".   For twelve years he conducted the "Presidents Own" band and served under five Presidents.    The first successful Operetta was "El Capitan" and was presented in 1895