Most famous composers
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from:1525 till:1594 color:Ren text:GP da Palestrina
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from:1685 till:1750 color:Bar text:JS Bach
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from:1685 till:1759 color:Bar text:GF Händel
from:1710 till:1736 color:Bar text:GB Pergolesi
from:1714 till:1798 color:Cla text:CW Gluck
from:1732 till:1809 color:Cla text:J Haydn
from:1750 till:1825 color:Cla text:A Salieri
from:1756 till:1791 color:Cla text:WA Mozart
from:1770 till:1827 color:Cla text:L v Beethoven
from:1782 till:1840 color:Cla text:N Paganini
from:1786 till:1826 color:Rom text:CM von Weber
from:1791 till:1857 color:Rom text:C Czerny
from:1792 till:1868 color:Rom text:G Rossini
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from:1796 till:1869 color:Rom text:C Loewe
from:1797 till:1828 color:Rom text:F Schubert
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from:1810 till:1849 color:Rom text:F Chopin
from:1810 till:1856 color:Rom text:R Schumann
from:1811 till:1886 color:Rom text:F Liszt
from:1813 till:1883 color:Rom text:R Wagner
from:1813 till:1901 color:Rom text:G Verdi
from:1819 till:1880 color:Rom text:J Offenbach
from:1824 till:1884 color:Rom text:B Smetana
from:1824 till:1896 color:Rom text:A Bruckner
from:1835 till:1921 color:Rom text:C Saint-Saëns
from:1838 till:1875 color:Rom text:G Bizet
from:1838 till:1920 color:Rom text:M Bruch
from:1839 till:1881 color:Rom text:M Mussorgsky
from:1840 till:1893 color:Rom text:PI Tchaikovsky
from:1841 till:1904 color:Rom text:A Dvorák
from:1843 till:1907 color:Rom text:E Grieg
from:1844 till:1908 color:Rom text:N Rimsky-Korsakov
from:1858 till:1924 color:Rom text:G Puccini
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Medieval
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Renaissance
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from:1430 till:1495 text:"Johannes Ockeghem"
from:1440 till:1521 text:"Josquin Des Prez"
from:1450 till:1517 text:"Heinrich Isaac"
from:1466 till:1506 text:"Martin Agricola"
from:1475 till:1520 text:"Antoine Brumel"
from:1475 till:1550 text:"Philippe Verdelot"
from:1490 till:1545 text:"John Taverner"
from:1490 till:1560 text:"Nicolas Gombert"
from:1495 till:1545 text:"Constanzo Festa"
from:1505 till:1585 text:"Thomas Tallis"
from:1508 till:1563 text:"Hans Newsidler" # from: 1508/1509 ?
from:1510 till:1572 text:"Claude Goudimel"
from:1510 till:1586 text:"Andrea Gabrieli"
from:1525 till:1594 text:"Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina" $bold
from:1532 till:1594 text:"Orlandus Lassus"
from:1543 till:1623 text:"William Byrd"
from:1545 till:1607 text:"Luzzasco Luzzaschi"
from:1548 till:1611 text:"Thomás Luis de Victoria"
from:1557 till:1612 text:"Giovanni Gabrieli"
from:1561 till:1613 text:"Carlo Gesualdo"
from:1563 till:1626 text:"John Dowland"
from:1567 till:1620 text:"Thomas Campion"
from:1569 till:1645 text:"Tobias Hume"
from:1570 till:1626 text:"John Cooper"
from:1571 till:1621 text:"Michael Praetorius" # from 1571/1572 ?
from:1583 till:1625 text:"Orlando Gibbons"
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Baroque
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from:1582 till:1652 text:"Gregorio Allegri"
from:1583 till:1643 text:"Girolamo Frescobaldi"
from:1585 till:1672 text:"Heinrich Schütz"
from:1587 till:1654 text:"Samuel Scheidt"
from:1632 till:1687 text:"Jean-Baptiste Lully"
from:1634 till:1704 text:"Marc Antoine Charpentier"
from:1637 till:1707 text:"Dietrich Buxtehude" $bold
from:1644 till:1704 text:"Heinrich Ignaz Biber"
from:1653 till:1706 text:"Johann Pachelbel"
from:1653 till:1713 text:"Arcangelo Corelli"
from:1659 till:1695 text:"Henry Purcell" $bold
from:1660 till:1725 text:"Alessandro Scarlatti" $bold
from:1668 till:1733 text:"François Couperin"
from:1670 till:1746 text:"Johann Caspar Fischer"
from:1670 till:1758 text:"Richard Leveridge"
from:1674 till:1754 text:"Tomaso Albinoni" $bold
from:1675 till:1738 text:"Tommaso Redi"
from:1675 till:1742 text:"Evaristo Abaco"
from:1678 till:1741 text:"Antonio Vivaldi" $bold
from:1681 till:1767 text:"Georg Philipp Telemann" $bold
from:1683 till:1764 text:"Jean-Philippe Rameau"
from:1685 till:1750 text:"Johann Sebastian Bach" $bold
from:1685 till:1757 text:"Domenico Scarlatti" $bold
from:1685 till:1759 text:"George Friderich Händel" $bold
from:1686 till:1750 text:"Silvius Leopold Weiss"
from:1687 till:1762 text:"Francesco Geminiani"
from:1688 till:1758 text:"Johann Friedrich Fasch"
from:1692 till:1766 text:"Unico Wilhelm von Wassenaar"
from:1692 till:1770 text:"Giuseppe Tartini"
from:1695 till:1764 text:"Pietro Locatelli"
from:1696 till:1755 text:"Maurice Greene"
from:1697 till:1773 text:"Johann Joachim Quantz"
from:1699 till:1773 text:"Jan Zach"
from:1706 till:1785 text:"Baldassare Galuppi"
from:1710 till:1736 text:"Giovanni Battista Pergolesi" $bold
from:1710 till:1740 text:"Domenico Alberti"
from:1710 till:1784 text:"Wilhelm Friedemann Bach"
from:1714 till:1788 text:"Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach"
from:1720 till:1788 text:"Carlo Antonio Campioni"
from:1725 till:1787 text:"Karl Friedrich Abel"
from:1729 till:1783 text:"Antonio Soler"
from:1735 till:1782 text:"Johann Christian Bach"
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Classical
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from:1714 till:1798 text:"Christoph Willibald Gluck" $bold
from:1715 till:1777 text:"Georg Christoph Wagenseil"
from:1719 till:1787 text:"Leopold Mozart"
from:1721 till:1799 text:"Pieter Hellendaal"
from:1726 till:1795 text:"François-André Danican Philidor"
from:1732 till:1809 text:"Joseph Haydn" $bold
from:1735 till:1767 text:"Johann Schobert"
from:1737 till:1781 text:"Josef Myslivecek"
from:1737 till:1806 text:"Michael Haydn"
from:1739 till:1799 text:"Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf"
from:1743 till:1805 text:"Luigi Boccherini"
from:1746 till:1800 text:"William Billings"
from:1749 till:1801 text:"Domenico Cimarosa"
from:1750 till:1825 text:"Antonio Salieri" $bold
from:1756 till:1791 text:"Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart" $bold
from:1756 till:1792 text:"Joseph Martin Kraus"
from:1760 till:1842 text:"Luigi Cherubini"
from:1763 till:1826 text:"Franz Danzi"
from:1770 till:1827 text:"Ludwig van Beethoven" $bold
from:1778 till:1837 text:"Johann Nepomuk Hummel"
from:1778 till:1839 text:"Fernando Sor"
from:1782 till:1837 text:"John Field"
from:1782 till:1840 text:"Niccolò Paganini" $bold
from:1784 till:end text:"Louis Spohr" # till:1859
from:1806 till:1826 text:"Juan Crisostomo de Arriaga"
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Early Romanticism
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from:1782 till:1871 text:"Daniel Auber"
from:1786 till:1826 text:"Carl Maria von Weber" $bold
from:1791 till:1857 text:"Carl Czerny"
from:1791 till:1864 text:"Giacomo Meyerbeer"
from:1792 till:1868 text:"Gioacchino Rossini" $bold
from:1796 till:1868 text:"Franz Berwald"
from:1796 till:1869 text:"Carl Loewe" $bold
from:1797 till:1828 text:"Franz Schubert" $bold
from:1797 till:1848 text:"Gaetano Donizetti" $bold
from:1801 till:1835 text:"Vincenzo Bellini"
from:1803 till:1856 text:"Adolphe-Charles Adam"
from:1803 till:1857 text:"Mikhail Glinka"
from:1803 till:1869 text:"Hector Berlioz" $bold
from:1804 till:1849 text:"Johann Strauss I" $bold
from:1805 till:1847 text:"Fanny Mendelssohn"
from:1808 till:1870 text:"Michael William Balfe"
from:1809 till:1847 text:"Felix Mendelssohn" $bold
from:1809 till:1864 text:"Otto Lindblad"
from:1810 till:1836 text:"Nobert Burgmüller"
from:1810 till:1849 text:"Carl Otto Nicolai"
from:1810 till:1849 text:"Frédéric Chopin" $bold
from:1810 till:1856 text:"Robert Schumann" $bold
from:1811 till:1886 text:"Franz Liszt" $bold
from:1813 till:1883 text:"Richard Wagner" $bold
from:1813 till:1888 text:"Charles-Valentin Alkan"
from:1813 till:1901 text:"Giuseppe Verdi" $bold
from:1815 till:1883 text:"Robert Volkmann"
from:1817 till:1890 text:"Niels Wilhelm Gade"
from:1818 till:1893 text:"Charles Gounod"
from:1819 till:1880 text:"Jacques Offenbach" $bold
from:1819 till:1896 text:"Clara Schumann" $bold
from:1822 till:1890 text:"César Franck"
from:1823 till:1892 text:"Edouard Lalo"
from:1824 till:1884 text:"Bedrich Smetana" $bold
from:1824 till:1896 text:"Anton Bruckner" $bold
from:1825 till:1899 text:"Johann Strauss II" $bold
from:1827 till:1870 text:"Joseph Strauss"
from:1829 till:1869 text:"Louis Moreau Gottschalk"
from:1829 till:1894 text:"Anton Rubinstein"
from:1830 till:1915 text:"Karl Goldmark"
from:1833 till:1858 text:"Francis Edward Bache"
from:1833 till:1887 text:"Alexander Borodin"
from:1833 till:1897 text:"Johannes Brahms" $bold
from:1834 till:1858 text:"Julius Reubke"
from:1835 till:1880 text:"Henryk Wieniawski"
from:1835 till:1921 text:"Camille Saint-Saëns" $bold
from:1836 till:1891 text:"Léo Delibes"
from:1838 till:1875 text:"Georges Bizet" $bold
from:1838 till:1920 text:"Max Bruch" $bold
from:1839 till:1881 text:"Modest Mussorgsky" $bold
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Late Romanticism
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from:1840 till:1893 text:"Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky" $bold
from:1840 till:1901 text:"John Stainer"
from:1840 till:1911 text:"Johan Svendsen"
from:1841 till:1904 text:"Antonin Dvorák" $bold
from:1842 till:1899 text:"Johann Fuchs"
from:1842 till:1900 text:"Arthur Sullivan"
from:1842 till:1918 text:"Arrigo Boito"
from:1843 till:1907 text:"Edvard Grieg" $bold
from:1844 till:1908 text:"Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov" $bold
from:1844 till:1908 text:"Pablo Sarasate"
from:1845 till:1924 text:"Gabriel Fauré"
from:1845 till:1937 text:"Charles-Marie Widor"
from:1847 till:1903 text:"Augusta Holmès"
from:1847 till:1927 text:"Robert Fuchs"
from:1848 till:1918 text:"Hubert Parry"
from:1850 till:1906 text:"Alexandre Luigini"
from:1850 till:1924 text:"Franz Xaver Scharwenka"
from:1852 till:1909 text:"Francisco Tarrega"
from:1852 till:1921 text:"Hans Huber"
from:1852 till:1924 text:"Charles Villiers Stanford"
from:1854 till:1921 text:"Engelbert Humperdinck"
from:1854 till:1931 text:"Whitefield Chadwick"
from:1855 till:1899 text:"Ernest Chausson"
from:1855 till:1914 text:"Anatol Liadov"
from:1856 till:1941 text:"Christian Sinding"
from:1858 till:1919 text:"Ruggiero Leoncavallo"
from:1858 till:1924 text:"Giacomo Puccini" $bold
from:1858 till:1931 text:"Eugene Ysaÿe"
from:1859 till:1924 text:"Sergei Lyapunov"
from:1860 till:1903 text:"Hugo Wolf"
from:1860 till:1909 text:"Isaac Albéniz"
from:1860 till:end text:"Gustave Charpentier" # till 1956
from:1861 till:1906 text:"Anton Stepanovich Arensky"
from:1862 till:1936 text:"Edward German"
from:1865 till:1914 text:"Albéric Magnard"
from:1865 till:1935 text:"Paul Dukas"
from:1865 till:1936 text:"Alexander Glazunov"
from:1866 till:1901 text:"Vasily Kalinnikov"
from:1866 till:1924 text:"Ferruccio Busoni"
from:1866 till:1925 text:"Erik Satie" $bold
from:1867 till:1916 text:"Enrique Granados"
from:1867 till:1944 text:"Amy Beach"
from:1870 till:1948 text:"Franz Lehár" $bold
from:1871 till:1927 text:"Wilhelm Stenhammar"
from:1872 till:1915 text:"Alexander Scriabin" $bold
from:1873 till:1916 text:"Max Reger"
from:1874 till:1939 text:"Franz Schmidt"
from:1875 till:end text:"Reinhold Gliere" # till:1956
from:1876 till:1946 text:"Manuel de Falla"
from:1876 till:end text:"Pablo Casals" # till:1973
from:1879 till:end text:"Joseph Canteloube" # till 1957
from:1879 till:1936 text:"Ottorino Respighi"
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