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What German composers wrote in the rococo style?

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In Germany the style was adopted to some extent by Georg Philipp Telemann, Johann Mattheson (1681-1764), and the sons of J. S. Bach, and it was an element in the keyboard sonatas of Domenico Scarlatti .

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