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A List of Composers and the Mythical Characters Inspiring Each of Them

A - B - C - D - EF - G - H - I J - K L - M - N O - P - Q R - S - T U - V W - X Y Z

COMPOSERS LIST

A
anon. - Apollo, Athene, Daphne (2), Dionysus, Eros, Olympians, Paris, Philomela, Sibyl (7), Sirens
Abbinanti - Cassandra
Adler - Aeolus
Agricola - Achilles
Albert, E. - Psyche
Albert, H. - Apollo, Galatea
Albert, S. - Oedipus
Albinoni - Eos
Alfven - Orpheus
Alkan - Prometheus
Alwyn - Nymphs
Ancelin - Silenus
Anderson - Orpheus
Andersson - Cassandra
Andriessen - Orpheus
Anfossi - Circe
Antoniou - Prometheus
Apon - Dioscuri
Arapis - Zeus
Argersinger - Odysseus
Arkenstone - Olympians
Arne - Paris, Phaethon
Arrigo - Perseus
Arter - Ariadne
Ashley - Atalanta
Auber - Sirens
Aubert - Nymphs
Auric - Orpheus (2)
Avni - Leda
Axelrod - Cassandra

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B
Babbitt - Philomela
Bach, J.C. - Endymion
Bach, J.C.F. - Athamas and Ino, Cassandra, Endymion, Orion, Pygmalion
Bach, J.S. - Aeolus, Artemis, Heracles, Midas
Baker - Aphrodite
Baley - Orpheus
Ball - Pan (2)
Bankaly - Nymphs
Banter - Actaeon, PhaedraBantock - Aphrodite (2), Meleager, Muses, Nymphs, Prometheus
Bantock - Oedipus
Barber - Andromache, Medea (3), Prometheus, Trojan War
Bateson - Daphne
Bax - Meleager, Nymphs (3), Satyrs
Beaulieu - Circe
Bedford - Odysseus
Beethoven - Prometheus
Bell - Perseus
Benda - Ariadne, Cephalus and Procris, Medea, Pygmalion
Bennett, M. - Orion
Bennett, R. - Syrinx (2)
Bergman - Psyche
Berlioz - Orpheus, Trojan War
Berners - Poseidon, Psyche
Bernier - Phaedra
Bertoni - Orpheus
Bertrand - Proteus
Bettencourt - Eros
Betts - Orpheus
Birtwistle - Orpheus (3)
Bliss - Achilles, Apollo, Hector, Olympians, Pan
Blitzstein - Harpies, Icarus
Blomdahl - Sisyphus
Blow - Adonis, Aphrodite, Muses
Blumenfeld - Europa
Boehe - Odysseus
Böhner - Eos
Boismortier - Ixion
Bolcom - Orpheus
Bolleter - Orpheus
Bon - Persephone
Bonelli - Atalanta
Bonfa - Orpheus
Bonini - Ariadne
Bononcini - Polyphemus
Bontempi - Paris
Bortnyansky - Heracles
Börtz - Pentheus
Bottesini - Hero
Boulanger - Helen, Odysseus, Sirens
Bowles - Phaedra
Boyce - Apollo, Olympians, Orpheus, Thetis
Boyer - Olympians, Trojan War
Brade - Satyrs
Brahms - Fates, Nenia
Brenet - Nymphs
Bretan -Orpheus
Brindle - Polyphemus
Britten - Alpheus and Arethusa, Apollo, Dionysus, Narcissus, Niobe, Odysseus, Pan, Phaedra, Phaethon
Brophy - Heracles
Brouwer - Demeter
Bruch - Achilles, Odysseus
Bruckner - Apollo
Buck - Dionysus
Buckley - Sirens
Burgmüller - Dionysus
Burleigh - Hades
Bush - Apollo, Narcissus
Byrd - Orphe
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C
Caccini - Orpheus
Cage - Bacchanalia
Calame - Nymphs
Caldara - Medea
Campra - Achilles, Aeneas (2), Arion, Daphne, Eros, Hebe, Idomeneus, Silenus
Cannabich - Orpheus
Carter - Ariadne, Orpheus (2)
Carvalho - Eumenes, Penelope, Perseus, Thestor
Catalani - Hero
Cavalli - Aeneas, Callisto, Daphne, Heracles, Jason, Orion
Cesti - Ariadne, Polyphemus
Chadwick - Aphrodite, Muses (3)
Chaminade - Satyrs
Charpentier, G. - Muses
Charpentier, M. - Actaeon, Circe, Medea, Orpheus (2), Perseus
Chausson - Hebe
Chávez - Antigone, Medea (2)
Chaynes - Cassandra, Oedipus, Orestes
Cherubini - Iphigenia, Medea, Pygmalion
Ciani - Aphrodite, Sirens
Clapton - Odysseus
Clarke - Hades, Pan, Philomela
Clementi - Aeneas
Clérambault - Alpheus and Arethusa, Apollo (3), Boreas, Galatea, Heracles, Hero, Medea, Orpheus, Pyramus
Coates - Orpheus
Cohn - Aphrodite
Cone - Philomela
Constantinides - Antigone (2), Apollo
Contant - Eos
Converse - Endymion
Cooke - Eros
Corigliano - Helen
Corrette - Apollo (2)
Costa - Ariadne
Cras - Galatea, Pan
Crispell - Hyperion

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D
Dahl - Bacchanalia
Dallapiccola - Adonis, Eros, Odysseus
Dandrieu - Orpheus
Danielpour - Orpheus
Davidson - Cassandra
Davis - Orpheus, Sirens
Debussy - Artemis, Dionysus (2), Nymphs, Pan (2), Satyrs, Sirens, Syrinx
Defeis - Atreus
de Leeuw - Antigone
Delibes - Nymphs
Demierre - Medea
De Moraes - Orpheus
Denhoff -Bacchanalia, Pentheus
Denisov - Medea
Deodato - Satyrs
Desmarest - Artemis
Destouches - Heracles
de Vries - Aeneas
Dickinson - Icarus
Diepenbrock - Marsyas, Orestes
Dinescu - Alpheus and Arethusa
Dittersdorf - Actaeon, Ages of the World, Leto, Perseus (2), Phaethon
Donizetti - Pygmalion
Dowland - Daphne
Draeseke - Penthesilea
Drigo - Actaeon
Druckman - Lamia, Medea (2)
Duhamel - Heracles
Dukelsky - Boreas
Duphly - Graces, Medea
Durkee - Sirens
Dusapin - Medea

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E
Eaton - Ajax, Aphrodite, Clytemnestra, Sibyl
Eberwein - Persephone
Eccles - Galatea, Hermes, Paris, Semele
Edlund - Ariadne
Egk - Odysseus
Elgar - Olympians
Emerson - Fates
Enesco - Oedipus
Eyck - Ares, Daphne (2), Pan, Sirens

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F
Facco - Amphitryon & Alcmene
Fadden - Eros
Fagen - Odysseus
Falla - Heracles, Psyche
Farnaby - Daphne
Fauré - Aphrodite, Artemis, Odysseus, Prometheus
Feldman - Ixion
Fénelon - Achilles, Apollo, Odysseus, Orion
Ferneyhough - Cassandra, Icarus, Mnemosyne, Prometheus
Ferrer - Nymphs
Fibich - Hippodamia
Fine - Alcestis
Finger - Paris
Finnissy - Ares
Firsova - Cassandra
Fischer - Ariadne, Muses
Fisher - Sirens
Flagello - Orestes
Flothuis - Orpheus
Fomin - Orpheus
Fontyn - Zephyr
Forqueray - Zeus
Forsyth - Orestes
Fortner - Atreus
Fortunati - Galatea
Foss - Orpheus
Foulds - Attis, Helen, Phaedra
Fox - Janus
Franck - Aeolus, Psyche
Franke - Phaedra
Fransique - Orpheus
Friderici - Eros
Friedman - Paris
Frounberg - Odysseus
Furrer - Narcissus
Fux - Daphne

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G
Gabriel, P. - Hermaphroditus
Gabriel, V. - Orpheus
Gade, J. - Leda
Gade, N. - Psyche
Gagliano - Daphne
Gagneux - Orpheus
Gastoldi - Sirens
Gerhard - Pandora
German - Orpheus
Ghezzo - Cassandra
Giacobbi - Cephalus and Procris
Gibbons - Eros
Gideon - Hades
Glanville-Hicks - Odysseus
Glass - Heracles, Orpheus
Glazunov - Bacchanalia
Glière - Aphrodite, Sirens
Gluck - Alcestis, Iphigenia (2), Meleager, Muses, Narcissus, Orpheus, Paris
Goebbels - Heracles
Goehr - Odysseus
Goetz - Nenia
Goldmark - Penthesilea, Prometheus
Gougeon - Odysseus
Gounod - Baucis and Philemon, Odysseus
Gouvy - Orestes
Greene - Orpheus
Greenfield - Aphrodite
Grétry - Cephalus and Procris, Midas
Guettel - Cronos, Hero, Icarus, Pegasus
Guillou - Hyperion
Gurney - Orpheus
Gutchë - Icarus

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H
Haeffner - Orestes
Hair - Ganymede, Prometheus
Hallgrímsson - Icarus
Hamilton - Hyperion
Handel, D. - Orpheus (2)
Handel, G. F. - Achilles, Alcestis (2), Ariadne, Artemis, Daphne (2), Galatea (2), Heracles (2), Meleager, Muses, Semele,          Theseus
Hanson - Pan, Satyrs
Harbison - Odysseus
Harrison - Aphrodite, Ariadne, Baucis and Philemon
Hasse - Galatea, Pyramus
Hauksson - Narcissus
Haydn, J. - Ariadne, Baucis and Philemon, Eros, Galatea, Orpheus
Haydn, M. - Perseus
Heiniö - Hermes
Henry - Orpheus
Henze - Ariadne, Hades, Hyacinthus, Oedipus, Orpheus, Pentheus
Heppener - Ariadne
Herbert - Hero
Hermann - Jason
Hervé - Odysseus
Hindemith - Psyche
Hoffman - Bacchanalia
Hoffmann - Cephalus and Procris
Holborne - Muses
Holm - Bacchanalia
Holmès - Perseus
Holst - Apollo, Ares, Dionysus (2), Olympians, Pan, Persephone
Honegger - Amphion, Antigone, Phaedra
Horneman - Muses
Horovitz - Dionysus
Houle - Marsyas
Hovda - Ariadne
Hovhaness - Adonis, Cronos, Heracles, Odysseus, Orpheus
Husa - Trojan War
Hvoslef - Antigone
Hyman - Ariadne

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I
Iannacone - Muses, Orpheus
Ibert - Bacchanalia, Muses, Perseus, Zeus
Ikebe - Oedipus
d'India - Artemis, Jason, Orpheus
d'Indy - Medea
Inghelbrecht - Nymphs
Ireland - Triton

J
Jacquet de la Guerre - Odysseus
James - Orpheus
Jaubert - Odysseus
Jenkins - Nymphs
Johnson - Hades, Satyrs (2), Orpheus
Jolivet - Iphigenia, Linus
Jommelli - Aeneas
Jörns - Europa
Josquin - Nymphs (2)

 

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K
Kagel - Pan
Kaipainen - Sisyphus
Kalinnikov - Nymphs
Kalitzke - Icarus
Kancheli - Hades
Karaidrou - Trojan War
Keiser - Adonis
Kirchner - Orpheus
Klein - Odysseus
Kleven - Odysseus
Kocáb - Odysseus
Koechlin - Amphitrite, Aphrodite, Dionysus, Nymphs (3)
Koerppen - Orpheus
Korte - Aphrodite
Kraus - Amphitryon and Alcmene, Persephone
Kupferman - Odysseus, Orestes (2), Orpheus, Prometheus
Kusser - A
pollo

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L
Lachner - Oedipus
Lajtha - Olympians
Lambert - Pomona, Tiresias
Lampe - Pyramus
Landi - Orpheus
Lang - Orpheus (2), Sirens
Langevin - Muses
Langgaard - Ixion, Oedipus
Lanier - Hero
Larsson - Apollo
Lawes - Daphne, Nymphs
Lazarof - Icarus
Leach - Ariadne (4), Pan
LeClair - Glaucus
Leeuwen - Aphrodite
Lehrer - Oedipus
Lekeu - Perseus
Leo - Artemis
Leoncavallo - Muses, Oedipus
Levitzki - Nymphs
Lidholm - Odysseus
Lieber - Dionysus
Liebermann - Medea, Penelope
Lim - Orestes
Liszt - Niobe, Orpheus, Prometheus
Literes - Galatea, Semele
Livgren - Icarus
Lloyd - Aphrodite, Persephone
Lloyd Webber - Eos
Locatelli - Ariadne
Locke - Orpheus, Pan, Psyche
Loevendie - Adonis
Loewe, C. - Ganymede
Loewe, F. - Pygmalion
Logothetis - Hades
Lolle - Eros
Lombardo - Orpheus
LoPresti - Odysseus
Louël - Syrinx
Lourié - Adonis, Aphrodite, Nymphs
Lully - Adonis, Alcestis, Apollo, Ariadne, Attis, Cadmus, Galatea (2), Orpheus, Perseus, Phaethon, Psyche
Lumbye - Hesperus, Pegasus

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M
MacDowell - Lamia
Mâche - Eos, Hades (2), Hyperion
Mageau - Furies
Magnard - Aphrodite
Malipiero - Fates, Hecuba, Orpheus
Malvessi - Arion, Zeus
Mamet - Poseidon
Manfroce - Hecuba
Manneke - Syrinx
MANOWAR - Trojan War
Marais - Alcyone
Marcello - Ariadne
Marenzio - Apollo, Pierides
Marez-Oyens - Orpheus
Markevitch - Icarus (2)
Marshall - Aphrodite
Martinç - Ariadne
Mascitti - Psyche
Massé - Pygmalion
Massenet - Phaedra
Mathias - Apollo
Matthews - Marsyas
Maurice - Daphne, Persephone
Mayr - Medea
McCandless - Nymphs
McFarlane - Pegasus
Mendelssohn - Antigone, Oedipus
Menotti - Ariadne
Merikanto - Pan
Miki - Aphrodite (2)
Milhaud - Aphrodite, Ariadne, Europa, Orestes, Orpheus, Phaedra, Proteus
Miller - Prometheus
Moe - Orpheus, Sirens
Mondonville - Eos
Monte - Aphrodite
Montéclair - Aeneas, Eros, Pyramus, Syrinx
Monteverdi - Ares, Ariadne (3), Eros, Nymphs (2), Odysseus, Orpheus
Montsalvage - Ariadne
Moondog - Aphrodite
Moross - Paris
Morrison - Oedipus
Moscheles - Muses
Mouquet - Pan
Mouret - Perseus
Mozart -Aeneas, Eros, Hyacinthus, Idomeneus
Mozetich - Nymphs
Mukle - Nymphs
Murray - Icarus
Musgrave - Apollo, Ariadne, Narcissus, Odysseus, Orpheus (3)
Mussorgsky - Oedipus
Myslivecek - Bellerophon

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N
Naumann - Amphion, Galatea
Nebra - Eros
Nedbal - Leda
Nelson - Medea, Olympians
Newman - Muses
Nielsen, C. - Apollo, Syrinx
Nielsen, S. - Hades
Nono - Prometheus
Nørgård - Achilles
Nørholm - Medusa
Novák, J. - Aeneas
Novák, V. - Pan

O
Ocker - Hades
Offenbach - Helen, Orpheus
Ohana - Odysseus, Phaedra, Sibyl
Orff - Antigone, Aphrodite, Prometheus, Sibyl
Ozone - Pandora

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P
Pacini - Medea
Paine - Oedipus
Paisiello - Phaedra
Pape - Hades
Paray - Artemis
Pari - Ariadne
Parker - Pan
Parmegiani - Orpheus
Parry - Odysseus
Partch - Daphne, Dioscuri, Odysseus (2), Oedipus, Pentheus
Partridge - Jason
Patzelt - Dioscuri
Penn - Eros
Pergolesi - Orpheus
Peri - Orpheus
Perle - Orpheus
Peterson-Berger - Dionysus
Pettersen - Orpheus
Pfitzner - Orpheus
Philidor - Apollo
Piccinni - Aeneas, Iphigenia
Pichl - Apollo, Ares
Pierné - Satyrs
Pilkington - Nymphs
Pizzetti - Agamemnon, Aphrodite, Oedipus, Phaedra
Pöntinen - Hermes
Poot - Pygmalion
Porter - Amphitryon and Alcmene
Poulenc - Artemis
Prin - Dioscuri, Iris
Puccini - Artemis
Purcell, D. - Artemis, Paris
Purcell, H. - Aeneas, Amphitryon and Alcmene, Apollo, Dionysus, Eros (2), Oedipus

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Q
Quilter - Orpheus

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R
Rabinovitch - Apollo, Prometheus
Rachmaninoff - Arion, Muses
Raitio - Antigone
Rameau - Apollo, Boreas, Cyclopes, Dardanus, Dioscuri, Eros (2), Hebe, Muses, Nais, Orpheus, Phaedra, Pygmalion,
    Thetis, Zephyr, Zeus
Rangström - Pan
Rascarini - Ariadne
Rautavaara - Aphrodite
Ravel - Alcyone, Eos
Rea - Hades, Orpheus
Read - Persephone
Redman - Eros
Reed - Persephone
Reger - Bacchanalia, Oedipus
Reichardt - Aeneas, Prometheus
Respighi - Alpheus and Arethusa, Aphrodite, Ariadne, Satyrs
Reynolds - Ariadne
Righini - Heracles
Robert ("Trebor") - Trojan War
Roger-Ducasse - Orpheus
Rogers - Aeolus
Rorem - Midas
Rosenberg - Orpheus
Rossi - Orpheus
Rossini - Aeneas, Andromache, Eos, Hera, Oedipus, Orpheus, Silvanus, Thetis
Rothberg - Phaedra
Roumanis - Odysseus, Phaedra
Rouse - Gorgons, Phaethon
Roussakis - Apollo
Roussel -Aeneas, Ariadne, Eros, Muses, Odysseus, Pan (2), Satyrs
Rubinstein - Poseidon
Rush - Aeneas
Rzewski - Antigone

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S
Saint-Saëns - Andromache, Heracles (2), Muses, Phaethon, Psyche
Salieri - Danaids
Samuel - Apollo, Orpheus
Sapieyevski - Hermes
Sapp - Centaurs, Heracles
Sarmanto - Pan
Sartorio - Orpheus
Satie - Hermes
Sauguet - Orpheus
Savioni - Aeneas
Saxton - Idomeneus
Scarlatti - Adonis, Aphrodite, Ariadne, Endymion (2), Hero, Orpheus
Scelsci - Aphrodite
Schafer - Ariadne (2)
Schein - Olympians
Schickele - Iphigenia, Oedipus
Schillings - Cassandra, Demeter, Oedipus
Schmelzer - Centaurs
Schmitt - Bacchanalia
Schnebel - Pan
Schneider - Narcissus
Schoeck - Aphrodite, Penthesilea, Philomela
Schreker - Memnon
Schubert - Actaeon, Aeneas, Apollo, Atlas, Attis, Demeter, Dioscuri, Eriphyle, Eros, Ganymede, Hades (4), Hector,
    Herales, Iphigenia, Memnon, Oedipus, Olympians (2), Orestes (3), Orpheus, Phaedra, Philoctetes, Prometheus
Schuman - Oedipus, Orpheus (2)
Schweitzer - Alcestis
Scott, C. - Odysseus
Scott, S. - Athene, Niobe
Scriabin - Prometheus
Sedaka - Eros
Segerstam - Pandora
Sgambati - Orpheus
Sibelius - Helen, Nymphs (2), Pan
Sicilianos - Cassandra
Sigurbjörnsson - Calais, Odysseus, Orpheus, Trojan War
Simonsen - Athene, Orestes
Skalkottas - Odysseus
Sleeper - Psyche
Spontini - Theseus
Stahmer - Ariadne
Stanford - Oedipus
Stankovych - Prometheus
Stanley - Heracles
Steffani - Heracles
Steiner - Helen
Stenhammar - Odysseus, Prometheus
Stevens - Sisyphus
Stradella - Ariadne, Hades
Strauss, E. - Helen
Strauss, I. - Orpheus
Strauss I, J. - Nymphs, Orpheus, Philomela, Titans
Strauss II, J. - Aphrodite, Apollo, Asclepius, Dionysus, Eos (3), Hades, Hesperus, Muses, Orpheus, Sirens
Strauss, Josef - Amazons (2), Artemis, Athene, Bellona, Dioscuri, Hesperus (3), Muses (3), Sirens
Strauss, R. - Adonis, Apollo, Ariadne, Danae, Daphne (3), Helen, Orestes
Stravinsky - Apollo, Oedipus, Orpheus, Persephone
Sturiale - Amphitryon and Alcmene
Sullivan - Olympians, Orpheus
Suppé - Pygmalion, Tantalus
Sylvian - Orpheus
Szymanowski - Alpheus and Arethusa, Demeter, Narcissus, Nymphs, Odysseus, Penthesilea, Pentheus

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T
Tailleferre - Aphrodite
Taneyev - Orestes (3)
Tartini - Aeneas
Tavener - Aphrodite
Tcherepnin - Narcissus
Telemann - Athamas and Ino, Orpheus, Satyrs
Telson - Oedipus
Tenreiro - Centaurs
Terrasse - Heracles
Theodorakis - Iphigenia, Orestes, Zeus
Tingstad - Hades
Tippett - Achilles, Orpheus, Trojan War
Torrejón - Adonis
Towner - Eos, Icarus
Traetta - Antigone, Phaedra
Trochu - Eros
Trümpy - Dionysus
Turina - Muses (3)
Turnage - Oedipus

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U
Uccellini - Persephone
Uttini - Thetis

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V
Vaccai - Perseus
Vangelis - Apollo
Varkonyi - Leda
Vaughan Williams - Cephalus and Procris, Orpheus, Trojan War
Vega - Odysseus
Veliotes - Eros
Il Verso - Ariadne
Vierne - Nymphs
Vine - Olympians
Vivaldi - Apollo
Vivier - Orion
Vranicky - Aphrodite

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W
Wagenaar - Amphitryon and Alcmene
Wagner - Aphrodite
Walczyk - Odysseus
Waldteufel - Hebe, Pomona, Sirens
Walker - Orpheus
Wallace - Orestes
Walton - Daphne, Triton, Trojan War
Warlock - Actaeon, Nymphs
Watanabe - Pandora
Waxman - Furies
Webbe - Bacchus
Weber - Dioscuri
Weill - Aphrodite, Orpheus
Weldon - Paris (2)
Wellesz - Pentheus
Wilbaux - Muses
Williams - Poseidon
Winslow - Artemis, Hades
Wolf - Ganymede, Penthesilea, Prometheus
Wolpe - Zeus
Wood - Apollo
Woolrich - Odysseus
Workman - Medea
Wuorinen - Hyperion

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X
Xenakis - Athene, Helen, Medea, Medusa, Oedipus, Olympians (2), Orestes, Persephone

Y
Yoshimatsu - Orion, Pegasus
Young - Nymphs

Z
Zappa - Heracles
Zemlinsky - Odysseus
Zhurbin - Orpheus
Zucker - Pandora

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