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Composer taking up bird without tail (4)

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berg

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(20th Century Austrian composer)

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(Other definitions for berg that I've seen before include "South African hill - Austrian composer" , "Austrian composer of 12-tone music, d. 1935" , "famously cut short a transatlantic journey" , "Mountain (in German, South African)" , "African mount" .)

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