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Table 2 Length L in number of tokens and size of vocabulary V for the 15 composers that are best represented in the Kunstderfuge corpus (after transposition). Year of birth, year of death, and number of pieces (# pieces) are also included

From: Heaps’ law and vocabulary richness in the history of classical music harmony

Composer

Birth

Death

L

V

# pieces

Johann Sebastian Bach

1685

1750

757,945

2630

2169

Joseph Haydn

1732

1809

401,162

2155

641

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

1756

1791

504,386

2516

685

Ludwig van Beethoven

1770

1827

670,380

3146

638

Franz Schubert

1797

1828

292,007

2356

270

Frédéric Chopin

1810

1849

128,373

2947

220

Robert Schumann

1810

1856

103,432

2423

109

Franz Liszt

1811

1886

116,044

2739

136

Johannes Brahms

1833

1897

159,998

2612

148

Piotr I. Tchaikovsky

1840

1893

156,749

2748

252

Antonín Dvořák

1841

1904

110,855

2350

145

Gustav Mahler

1860

1911

43,877

3034

33

Claude Debussy

1862

1918

91,600

2728

194

Ferruccio Busoni

1866

1924

26,898

2370

42

Ígor Stravinsky

1882

1971

20,481

2443

39

All 76

1397

1992

5,131,159

4085

9489