The document provides a timeline of composers organized by their period of activity. It includes each composer's dates of birth and where they lived as well as the genres they wrote in, such as operas and songs. For some composers it notes who they studied with, famous vocal works, works they are known for stylistically, and other notable pieces of information. The timeline spans from the Medieval/Renaissance period up to living composers of the 20th century and beyond.
The document provides a timeline of composers organized by their period of activity. It includes each composer's dates of birth and where they lived as well as the genres they wrote in, such as operas and songs. For some composers it notes who they studied with, famous vocal works, works they are known for stylistically, and other notable pieces of information. The timeline spans from the Medieval/Renaissance period up to living composers of the 20th century and beyond.
The document provides a timeline of composers organized by their period of activity. It includes each composer's dates of birth and where they lived as well as the genres they wrote in, such as operas and songs. For some composers it notes who they studied with, famous vocal works, works they are known for stylistically, and other notable pieces of information. The timeline spans from the Medieval/Renaissance period up to living composers of the 20th century and beyond.
Composer’s dates – where born and where lived? In what genres did they write? (operas, songs, etc.) With whom did they study? Famous vocal works? For what are they known stylistically/compositionally? Other famous works? In what genres of music did they write? Any unusual piece information (or dirt) did you find?
MEDIEVAL/RENAISSANCE • Charles François Gounod (1818 - 1893)
• Jacques Offenbach (1819 - 1880) (before 1600) • Johann Strauss II (1825 - 1899) • Guillaume de Machaut (c. 1300 - 1377) • Stephen Collins Foster (1826 - 1864) • Josquin Des Préz (1440 - 1521) • Johannes Brahms (1833 - 1897) • Thomas Tallis (c. 1505 - 1585) • Charles-Camille Saint-Saëns (1835 - 1921) • William Byrd (1543 - 1623) • Georges Bizet (1838 - 1875) • Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky (1839 - 1881) BAROQUE • Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840 - 1893) (1600-1750) • Antonín Dvořák (1841 - 1904) • Thomas Morley (1557 - c. 1603) • Jules-Emile-Frederic Massenet (1842 - 1912) • John Dowland (1563 - 1626) • Gabriel-Urbain Fauré (1845 - 1924) • Claudio Monteverdi (1567 - 1643) • Amedee-Ernest Chausson (1855 - 1899) • Heinrich Schutz (1585 - 1672) • Sir Edward William Elgar (1857 - 1934) • Giuseppe Torelli (1658 - 1709) • Giacomo Puccini (1858 - 1924) • Henry Purcell (1659 - 1695) • Hugo Wolf (1860 - 1903) • Alessandro Scarlatti (1660 - 1725) • Gustav Mahler (1860 - 1911) • Antonio Caldara (1670 - 1736) • Claude Debussy (1862 - 1918) • Giovanni Bononcini (1670 - 1747) • Richard Strauss (1864 - 1949) • Antonio Vivaldi (1678 - 1741) • Enrique Granados (1867 - 1916) • Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683 - 1764) • Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872 - 1958) • George Frideric Handel (1685 - 1759) • Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873 - 1943) • Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 - 1750) • Arnold Schoenberg (1874 - 1951) • Benedetto Marcello (1686 - 1739) • Gustav Holst (1874 - 1934) • Charles Ives (1874 - 1954) CLASSICAL • Maurice Ravel (1875 - 1937) (1750-1825) • Manuel de Falla (1876 - 1946) • Giovanni Pergolesi (1710 - 1736) • Roger Quilter (1877 - 1953) • Thomas Arne (1710 - 1778) • Igor Stravinsky (1882 - 1971) • Christoph Willibald von Gluck (1714 - 1787) • Sergei Prokofieff (1891 - 1953) • Armand-Louis Couperin (1727 - 1789) • Paul Hindemith (1895 - 1963) • Franz Joseph Haydn (1732 - 1809) • George Gershwin (1898 - 1937) • Giovanni Paisiello (1740 - 1816) • Francis Poulenc (1899 - 1963) • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791) • Randall Thompson (1899 - 1984) • Ludwig Van Beethoven (1770 - 1827) • Gioachino Rossini (1792 - 1868) 20th CENTURY FORWARD • Franz Schubert (1797 - 1828) • Kurt Weill (1900 - 1950) • Gaetano Donizetti (1797 - 1848) • Aaron Copland (1900 - 1990) • Gerald Finzi (1901 - 1956) • Joaquín Rodrigo (1901 -) ROMANTIC (1825-1900) • Maurice Durufle (1902 - 1986) • Vincenzo Bellini (1801 - 1835) • Sir William Turner Walton (1902 - 1983) • Louis-Hector Berlioz (1803 - 1869) • Samuel Barber (1910 - 1981) • Johann Strauss I (1804 - 1849) • Gian Carlo Menotti (1911 -) • Jacob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn (1809 - 1847) • Norman Dello Joio (1913 -) • Frederic Chopin (1810 - 1849) • Lord Benjamin Britten (1913 - 1976) • Robert Alexander Schumann (1810 - 1856) • Leonard Bernstein (1918 - 1990) • Franz Liszt (1811 - 1886) • Kirke Mechem (1925 -) • Wilhelm Richard Wagner (1813 - 1883) • John Rutter (b. 1945 • Giuseppe Verdi (1813 - 1901