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Christoph Willibald (Ritter von) Gluck 2 July 1714 – 15 November 1787) was a composer of Italian and French opera in the early classical period. Born in the Upper Palatinate and raised in Bohemia, both part of the Holy Roman Empire, he gained prominence at the Habsburg court at Vienna. There he brought about the practical reform of opera's dramaturgical practices for which many intellectuals had been campaigning.

Joseph Haydn (born March 31, 1732, Rohrau, Austria—died May 31, 1809, Vienna) Austrian composer who was one of the most important figures in the development of the Classical style in music during the 18th century. He helped establish the forms and styles for the string quartet and the symphony.

Saint Petersburg, Russian composer. Despite being a strict contemporary of the Group of Five, made up of figures of the stature of Borodin, Mussorgsky and Rimsky-Korsakov, Tchaikovsky's style cannot be pigeonholed within the margins of the nationalism then prevailing in his native Russia. Cosmopolitan in nature in terms of influences, his music is above all deeply expressive and personal, revealing of the author's personality, complex and tormented.

Maria Theresia von Paradis (May 15, 1759 – February 1, 1824) was an Austrian musician and composer who lost her sight at an early age, and for whom her close friend Mozart may have written his Piano Concerto No. 18 in B-flat major.

Franz Peter Schubert 31 January 1797 – 19 November 1828) was an Austrian composer of the late Classical and early Romantic eras. Despite his short life, Schubert left behind a vast oeuvre, including more than 600 secular vocal works (mainly lieder), seven complete symphonies, sacred music, operas, incidental music, and a large body of piano and chamber music.

Musican and sister of W. A. Mozart. A child prodigy, she was involved in the family's concert tours of 1762-1769; she won high praise for taste and execution in keyboard performance but, unlike Mozart, was not presented as a composer although she was given a rudimentary education in composition as references in the family letters show; during the 1770s and early 1780s she gave keyboard lessons to several of the daughters of the Salzburg nobility.

Ludwig van Beethoven(baptised 17 December 1770 – 26 March 1827) was a German composer and pianist. He is one of the most revered figures in the history of Western music; his works rank among the most performed of the classical music repertoire and span the transition from the Classical period to the Romantic era in classical music. Beethoven's career has conventionally been divided into early, middle, and late periods.

Johannes Chrystostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart (1756–1791) was arguably the most gifted musician in the history of classical music. His inspiration is often described as 'divine', but he worked assiduously, not only to become the great composer he was, but also a conductor, virtuoso pianist, organist and violinist.

Gioachino Antonio Rossini (29 February 1792 – 13 November 1868) was an Italian composer who gained fame for his 39 operas, although he also wrote many songs, some chamber music and piano pieces, and some sacred music.

Berlioz nació en Francia en La Côte-Saint-André, entre Lyon y Grenoble. Su padre era médico y envió al joven Héctor en 1821 a París a estudiar medicina. Berlioz quedó horrorizado por el proceso de disección y a pesar de la desaprobación de su padre, abandonó la carrera para estudiar música. Asistió al Conservatorio de París, donde estudió composición y ópera, quedando muy impresionado por la obra y las innovaciones de su maestro Jean-François Lesueur.

Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (3 February 1809 – 4 November 1847), widely known as Felix Mendelssohn, was a German composer, pianist, organist and conductor of the early Romantic period. Mendelssohn's compositions include symphonies, concertos, piano music, organ music and chamber music.

Was a French-Polish teacher, composer and virtuoso pianist, considered one of the most important in history and one of the greatest representatives of musical Romanticism.

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Wilhelm Richard Wagner; 22 May 1813 – 13 February 1883) was a German composer, theatre director, polemicist, and conductor who is chiefly known for his operas (or, as some of his mature works were later known, "music dramas").

Giuseppe Verdi (born October 9/10, 1813, Roncole, near Busseto, duchy of Parma [Italy]—died January 27, 1901, Milan, Italy) leading Italian composer of opera in the 19th century, noted for operas such as Rigoletto (1851), Il trovatore (1853), La traviata (1853), Don Carlos (1867), Aida (1871), Otello (1887), and Falstaff (1893) and for his Requiem Mass (1874).

He was a composer born in Bohemia, a region that during the musician's lifetime was part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. He pioneered the development of a musical style that became closely linked to Czech nationalism. For this reason, he is recognized in his country as the father of Czech music. He is internationally known for his opera The Sold Bride and for the cycle of symphonic poems Má vlast depicting the history, legends and landscapes of the composer's native homeland.

Johannes Brahms (born May 7, 1833, Hamburg —died April 3, 1897, Vienna, Austria-Hungary. was a German composer and pianist of the Romantic period, who wrote symphonies, concerti, chamber music, piano works, choral compositions, and more than 200 songs. Brahms was the great master of symphonic and sonata style in the second half of the 19th century.

Many of his works were inspired by Russian history, Russian folklore, and other national themes. Such works include the opera Boris Godunov, the orchestral tone poem Night on Bald Mountain and the piano suite Pictures at an Exhibition.
For many years, Mussorgsky's works were mainly known in versions revised or completed by other composers. Many of his most important compositions have posthumously come into their own in their original forms, and some of the original scores are now also available.

He was a post-romantic composer from Bohemia – a territory then belonging to the Austrian Empire –, one of the first Czech composers to achieve world recognition and one of the great composers of the second half of the 19th century. He frequently employed rhythms and other aspects of the folk music of Moravia and his native Bohemia, following the example of his predecessor, the Romantic-era nationalist Bedřich Smetana.

He was born in Bergen (Norway) on June 15, 1843, descendant of a Scottish family, whose original surname was Grieg. After the Battle of Culloden (1746), his great-grandfather had emigrated to various places, finally settling as a merchant in Bergen around 1770.
He grew up in a musical environment. His mother, Gesine, was his first piano teacher. Later, in the summer of 1858, Grieg met the legendary Norwegian violinist Ole Bull, a family friend and Gesine's brother-in-law.

Russian composer and conductor. Between 1856 and 1862 he studied at the Saint Petersburg Navy School, while also training musically. In 1859 he began studying piano with F. A. Canille, who encouraged him to compose and introduced him to Mily Balakirev and Cesar Cui. Together with these two, as well as Borodin and Mussorgsky, he formed the group of innovators of the Five.

Giacomo Puccini (22 December 1858 – 29 November 1924) was an Italian composer known primarily for his operas. Regarded as the greatest and most successful proponent of Italian opera after Verdi, he was descended from a long line of composers, stemming from the late-Baroque era.

Was an Austro-Hungarian romantic composer, virtuoso pianist, conductor, piano teacher, arranger and lay Franciscan. His Hungarian name was Liszt Ferencz, in modern usage Liszt Ferenc, and from 1859 to 1865 he was officially known as Franz Ritter von Liszt.

Gustav Mahler (German 7 July 1860 – 18 May 1911) was an Austro-Bohemian Romantic composer, and one of the leading conductors of his generation.

Hugo Philipp Jacob Wolf (13 March 1860 – 22 February 1903)[1] was an Austrian composer, particularly noted for his art songs, or Lieder. He brought to this form a concentrated expressive intensity which was unique in late Romantic music, somewhat related to that of the Second Viennese School in concision but diverging greatly in technique.

Born into a family of modest means and little cultural involvement, he showed enough musical talent to be admitted to the best center for musical studies in France, the Paris Conservatory, at the age of ten. He initially studied piano, but found his calling in avant-garde composition, despite the disapproval of conservative Conservatory professors. It took him many years to develop his musical style and he was almost 40 years old when he achieved international.

registered at birth as Johan Julius Christian Sibelius1 (Hämeenlinna, December 8, September 20, 1957), was a Finnish composer and violinist of late Romanticism and early Modernism. He is widely recognized as his country's greatest composer and, through his music, is often credited with helping Finland develop a national identity during its struggle for independence from Russia.

He is recognized as one of the first composers to delve into atonal composition, and especially for the creation of the twelve-note technique based on series of twelve notes, opening the door to the subsequent development of serialism in the second half of the 20th century. Furthermore, he was the leader of the so-called Second Vienna School.

was a French composer of the 20th century. His work, frequently linked to Impressionism, also shows a bold neoclassical style and, at times, features of Expressionism, and is the fruit of a complex heritage and musical discoveries that revolutionized music for piano and orchestra. Recognized as a master of orchestration and for being a meticulous craftsman, cultivating formal perfection while remaining deeply human and expressive at the same time.

He was a Spanish composer of musical nationalism, one of the most important of the first half of the 20th century, along with Isaac Albéniz, Enrique Granados, Joaquín Turina and Joaquín Rodrigo, and one of the most important Spanish composers of all time.

Béla Bartók was born in 1881 in Nagyszentmiklós, in the Austro-Hungarian Banat, a region located at the confluence of Hungarian, Romanian and Serbian cultures, a traditional focus of opposition to the rule of the House of Habsburg and later to the regime of Miklós Horthy. His father was the director of an agricultural school and his mother, Paulina , was a teacher. She started teaching him how to play the piano when he was five years old.

Zoltán Kodály was born on December 16, 1882 in Kecskemét, a city located in central Hungary. His father was a railroad official and amateur violinist, and from a young age he demonstrated a precocious talent for music. Roland de Candé assures that his first influences came from the musical gatherings that his father organized at home and from the gypsies.

Joaquín Turina was born in Seville on December His father, Joaquín Turina y Areal, was a costumbrista painter, and his mother, Concepción Pérez, sang in the women's choir of her brotherhood.Since childhood he was known as a child prodigy. At only four years old he improvised virtuously on the accordion that one of his maids had given him. He had the opportunity to receive his first music classes at the Colegio del Santo Ángel and was in charge of accompanying the girls' choir.

His long life allowed him to discover a wide variety of musical trends. His protests against those who called him a musician of the future are justified: "It's absurd. I don't live in the past or the future. "I am in the present." At present he composed a large number of classical works addressing various styles such as primitivism, neoclassicism and serialism, but he is known worldwide above all for three works from one of his initial periods—the so-called "Russian period."

Schuman (29 June 1886 – 4 September 1963) was a Luxembourg-born French statesman. Schuman was a Christian democrat (Popular Republican Movement) political thinker and activist. Twice Prime Minister of France, a reformist Minister of Finance and a Foreign Minister, he was instrumental in building postwar European and trans-Atlantic institutions and was one of the founders of the European Communities, the Council of Europe and NATO.

He received some musical instruction from his father. Already before 1899, the year of his father's death, Villa-Lobos had begun to dedicate himself to music as a professional. He performed as a café musician playing the cello, although he was also an occasional guitar, clarinet and piano player. Villa-Lobos also had a second career as a music pedagogue in his country.

was a German pianist, composer, and piano teacher. Regarded as one of the most distinguished pianists of the Romantic era, she exerted her influence over the course of a 61-year concert career, changing the format and repertoire of the piano recital by lessening the importance of purely virtuosic works. She also composed solo piano pieces, a piano concerto (her Op. 7), chamber music, choral pieces, and songs.

Gershwin studied piano with Charles Hambitzer and composition with Rubin Goldmark, Henry Cowell and Joseph Brody. He began his career as a song plugger but soon began composing plays for Broadway with his brother Ira Gershwin and with Buddy DeSylva. He moved to Paris, intending to study with Nadia Boulanger, but she rejected him, fearful that rigorous classical studies would ruin his jazz-influenced style; Maurice Ravel expressed similar objections when Gershwin asked if she wanted to study with

French composer, organist, pedagogue and ornithologist. A deep Catholic faith, the fascination with Hinduism, the seduction of instrumental color and, above all, the love of birds and nature are some of the heterogeneous elements on which the personal style of Olivier Messiaen, an author, is based. hardly pigeonholed into a specific current. Fascinating for its timbral, rhythmic and harmonic richness, unmistakably modern.

was a French composer. He is considered the creator of concrete music. He is the author of the book titled Treatise on Musical Objects, where he exposes all of his theory on this type of music. He composed different works, all of them based on the technique of concrete music. Among them, it is worth highlighting his Study for locomotives.

American composer. Also a poet and essayist, he is situated within the North American avant-garde movement of the second half of the 20th century, influential in both contemporary experimental trends in the United States and Latin America.

Never went to school; His parents hired educators who visited him at his house. He then began his studies at the Paris Conservatory, where he studied piano and percussion with Félix Passeronne, composition with Nadia Boulanger and harmony with the French master Olivier Messiaen. Between 1949 and 1958, Henry worked in Paris at the Club d'Essai of French Radio Television, founded by Pierre Schaeffer.

Philip Glass (born January 31, 1937) is an American composer and pianist. He is widely regarded as one of the most influential composers of the late 20th century.Glass's work has been associated with minimalism, being built up from repetitive phrases and shifting layers. Glass describes himself as a composer of "music with repetitive structures",which he has helped to evolve stylistically.