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COMPOSER TIMELINE BY PERIOD

ORIENTATION WORKSHOP – Prof. Smith


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

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