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MUSIC HISTORY

 

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Classical Composers

 

The following is a list of some of the major composers from each century.

 

 

1500’s

Giralomo Frescobaldi (1583-1643)

Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643)

Giovanni Gabrieli (1555-1612)

 

1600’s

Henry Purcell (1659-1695)

Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)

George Telemann (1681-1767)

Jean-Phillippe Rameau (1683-1764)

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)

Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757)

George Handel (1685-1759)

 

1700’s

Franz Haydn (1732-1809)

Muzio Clementi (1752-1832)

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)

Ludwig Van Beethoven (1770-1827)

Carl Von Weber (1786-1826)

Gioachino Rossini (1792-1868)

Franz Schubert (1797-1828)

 

1800’s

Hector Berlioz (1803-1869)

Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)

Frederic Chopin (1810-1849)

Robert Schumann (1810-1856)

Franz Liszt (1811-1886)

Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901)

Richard Wagner (1813-1901)

Johann Strauss (1825-1899)

Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)

Camille Saint-Saens (1835-1921)

Georges Bizet (1836-1875)

Modeste Mussorgsky (1839-1881)

Peter Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)

Antonin Dvorak (1841-1904)

Edvard Grieg (1843-1907)

Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908)

Gabriel Faure (1845-1924)

John Philip Sousa (1854-1934)

Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924)

Gustav Mahler (1860-1911)

Edward MacDowell (1860-1908)

Claude Debussy (1862-1918)

Richard Strauss (1864-1949)

Jean Sibelius (1865-1957)

Ralph Vaughan Wililiams (1872-1958)

Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943)

Charles Ives (1874-1954)

Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951)

Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)

Bela Bartok (1881-1945)

Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971)

Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953)

George Gershwin (1898-1937)

Francis Poulenc (1899-1963)

 

1900’s

Aaron Copland (1900-1990)

Kurt Weill (1900-1950)

Dmitry Shostakovich (1906-1975)

Samuel Barber (1910-1981)

Benjamin Britten (1913-1976)

Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990)

Dmitri Kabalevsky (1904-1987)

John Cage (1912-1992)

Witold Lutoslawski (1913-1994)

Toru Takemitsu (1930-1996)

Terry Riley (1935-present)

John Adams (1947-present)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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