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Period: 1567 BCE to
Claudio Monteverdi
He was an Italian composer, singer, choir director and pries -
680
Gregorian singing
Type of plain simple, monodic singing and with music subject to the text used in the liturgy of the Catholic Church -
680
Gregorian chant
The purpose of the song was to teach the
word of God to the faithful, so the text was
more important than the music. The
rhythm of the song is free, since it depends
on the text. -
992
Guido d'Arezzo
Was an italian Benedictine wonk and one of the central figures of music in Middle Ages. -
1098
Hildegard von Bingen
Was a holy Benedictine abbess and German polymath, active as a composer, writer, philosopher, scientist, naturalist, physician, mystic, monastic leader and prophetess during the Middle Ages. -
1135
Bernart de Ventadorn
He was a popular Provençal troubadour, composer and poet. He is probably the best known trobador of the style called trobar leu. -
Period: 1150 to 1320
Ars antiqua
The first polyphonic form was developed: the organum. It’
s main composers, from the Notre Dame
school, were Leonin and Perotin. -
1160
Perotin
French composer borned in Paris. It was considerated the most importan composer of the Notre Dame school. -
Period: 1170 to 1230
Ars Antiqua
The first polyphonic form was developed: the organum. It’
s main composers, from the Notre Dame
school, were Leonin and Perotin. -
1201
Leonin
With Perotin they were the first composers of organ. -
1221
Alfonso X el Sabio
Was a spanish that resumed the offensive against the Muslims and occupied Jerez, Salé, the port of Rabat and conquered Cádiz. -
1300
Guillaume de Machaut
French medieval clergyman, poet and composer. Representative of the movement known as Ars nova. -
Period: 1320 to 1380
Ars Nova
The Ars nova will take place during the fourteenth century. At this time, polyphony is
perfected and acquires greater rhythmic and melodic complexity. -
1322
Ars Nova
The Ars nova will take place during the fourteenth century. At this time, polyphony is
perfected and acquires greater rhythmic and melodic complexity. -
1397
Francesco Landini
Was an Italian composer, organist, singer, poet, instrument maker and astrologer. He was one of the most famous and admired composers of the second half of the 14th century. -
1400
Johannes Gutenberg
Was a German goldsmith, inventor of the modern printing press with movable type, around 1450. -
1468
Juan del Encina.
He was a poet, musician and playwright of the Spanish Renaissance during the time of the Catholic Monarchs. -
1483
Martín Lutero
Was an Augustinian Catholic theologian, philosopher and friar who began and promoted the Protestant Reformation in Germany -
1500
Cristóbal de Morales
Spanish composer. Master of polyphonic sacred music, his music was Spanish Renaissance polyphony. -
1510
Antonio de Cabezón
He was a Spanish organist, harpist and composer of the Renaissance. -
1532
Orlando di Lasso
Was a Franco-Flemish composer of the late Renaissance. He is considered one of the most influential composers of the 16th century. -
1533
Andrea Gabrieli
Italian composer and organist of the late Renaissance. Uncle of the famous composer Giovanni Gabrieli -
1544
Maddalena Casulana
Was an Italian composer, violin player and singer of the late Renaissance. She was the first woman composer to have her music printed and published in the history of Western music. -
1548
Tomás Luis de Victoria
He was a Catholic priest, chapelmaster and famous polyphonist composer of the Spanish Renaissance. -
1557
Giovanni Gabrieli
Italian composer and organist. One of the most influential musicians of his time -
1566
Carlo Gesualdo
Prince of Venosa and Count of Conza, was an Italian composer of the late Renaissance with expressive madrigals and pieces of sacred music. -
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
He was an Italian Renaissance composer of sacred music and the best-known representative of the Roman School of musical composition. -
Period: to
Giacomo Carissimi
Giacomo Carissimi was one of the most eminent Italian composers of the Baroque and one of the main representatives of the Roman School. -
Period: to
Barbara Strozzi
She was an Italian composer and singer, during his lifetime, he published eight volumes of his own music and had more secular music in print than any other composer. -
Period: to
Stradivarius
Antonio Stradivari was the most prominent Italian luthier.
He was the most famous maker of string instruments in the history of music. -
Period: to
Henry Purcell
Henry Purcell was an English Baroque composer. Considered one of the best English composers of all time, he incorporated French and Italian stylistic elements into his music, generating his own English style of baroque music. -
Period: to
Antonio Vivaldi
Vivaldi composed more than 700 works for different instruments, including more than 400 violin concertos and 46 operas. Among these concerts, without a doubt, The Four Seasons is one of the most famous. The composer managed to have the respect of his peers and experienced the success of his works -
Period: to
George Philipp Telemann
George Philipp Telemann was a germany composer, although his work also had characteristics of early classicism. He is considered the most prolific composer in the history of music. -
Period: to
Johann Sebastian Bach
Johann Sebastian Bach was a German composer, musician, conductor, chapelmaster, singer and teacher of the Baroque period. -
Period: to
Georg Friedrich Händel (1685-1759)
He was a germany composer,
he was considered one of the summit figures in the history of music, -
Gluck
Christoph Willibald Gluck, since 1756 knight of Gluck was a German composer, from the region of Bohemia, Czech Republic. He is considered one of the most important opera composers of the Classicism of the second half of the 18th century. -
J. Haydn
Franz Joseph Haydn, known as Joseph Haydn, was an Austrian composer. He is one of the greatest representatives of the Classic period, in addition to being known as the "father of the symphony" and the "father of the string quartet" thanks to his important contributions to both genres -
Nannerl Mozart
Maria Anna Walburga Ignatia Mozart, also called Nannerl and Marianne, was a famous 18th-century music. She was the older sister of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and the daughter of Leopold and Anna Maria Mozart -
W.A. Mozart
Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart, better known as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, was a composer, pianist, conductor and professor of the former Archbishopric of Salzburg, master of Classicism, considered one of the most influential and outstanding musicians in history. -
Maria Theresia Von Paradis
Maria Theresia von Paradis was an Austrian pianist and composer. Despite the fact that from the age of three he completely lost his sight, this was not an impediment for the production and work of this great pianist, singer and songwriter to stand out. -
Beethoven
Ludwig van Beethoven was a German composer, conductor, pianist and piano teacher. His musical legacy ranges, chronologically, from Classicism to the beginnings of Romanticism -
Gioachino Rossini
He was an Italian composer who gained fame for his 39 operas, although he also wrote many songs, some pieces of chamber and piano music and some sacred music -
Franz Schubert
He was an Austrian composer of the principles of musical Romanticism -
Hector Berilioz
Louis Hector Berlioz was a French composer and a prominent figure of Romanticism. His best-known work is the Fantastic Symphony, premiered in 1830. -
Felix Mendelssohn
Was a German composer, conductor and pianist of romantic music, and brother of the also pianist and composer Fanny Mendelssohn. -
Frédéric Chopin
Was a teacher, composer and virtuoso Franco-Polish pianist, considered one of the most important in history and one of the greatest representatives of musical Romanticism. -
Robert Schumann
Was a German composer, pianist and music critic of the 19th century, considered one of the most important and representative composers of musical Romanticism. Schumann left his law studies, with the intention of pursuing a career as a virtuoso pianist -
Franz Liszt
Was a romantic Austro-Hungarian composer, a virtuoso pianist, conductor, piano teacher, arranger and Franciscan secular. His Hungarian name was Liszt Ferencz, according to the modern use Liszt Ferenc, and from 1859 to 1865 he was officially known as Franz Ritter von Liszt. -
Giuseppe Verdi
Was a romantic Italian opera composer, one of the most important of all time. His work serves as a bridge between the beautiful singing of Rossini, Bellini and Donizetti, and the current of Verismo and Puccini. -
Richard Wagner
Was a German composer, conductor, poet, essayist, playwright and music theorist of Romanticism. Mainly his operas stand out in which, unlike other composers, he also assumed the libretto and scenography. -
Clara Schumann
Was a German pianist, composer and piano teacher. She was one of the great European concert performers of the 19th century and her career was key in the dissemination of the compositions of her husband, Robert Schumann. -
Bedřich Smetana
Was a composer born in Bohemia, a region that in the life of the musician was part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. He was a pioneer in the development of a musical style that was intimately linked to Czech nationalism. For this reason, he is recognized in his country as the father of Czech music. -
Johannes Brahms
Was a German composer, pianist and conductor of Romanticism, considered the most classic of the composers of that period. Born in Hamburg into a Lutheran family, he spent much of his professional life in Vienna. -
Modest Músorgski
Was a Russian composer, a member of the "The Five" group. Among his works are the operas Borís Godunov and Jovánschina, the symphonic poem Una noche en el Monte Pelado and the piano suite Paintings from an exhibition. Musorgsky was an innovator of Russian music in the romantic period. -
Piotr Ilich Chaikovski
Was a Russian composer from the Romantic period. He is the author of some of the most famous classical music works of the current repertoire, such as the ballets The Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty and The Nutcracker -
Antonín Dvořák
Was a post-Romantic composer from Bohemia one of the first Czech composers to achieve world recognition and one of the great composers of the second half of the 19th century. -
Edvard Grieg
Was a Norwegian composer and pianist, considered one of the main representatives of late Romanticism. -
Rimski Korsakov
Nikolai Andreievich Rimski-Kórsakov was a Russian composer, conductor and pedagogue member of the group of composers known as The Five -
Giacomo Puccini
Was an Italian opera composer, considered among the greatest, of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He was a visionary, creator of the concepts of music that would govern cinema during the twentieth century. -
Hugo Wolf
Was an Austrian composer of Slovenian origin, who lived during the late 19th century in Vienna. Enthusiastic follower of Richard Wagner, he mingled in the existing disputes in Vienna, at that time, between Wagnerians and formalists or Brahmsians. -
Gustav Mahler
Was an Austro-Bohemian composer and conductor whose works are considered, along with those of Richard Strauss, the most important of post-Romanticism. In the first decade of the twentieth century, Gustav Mahler was one of the most important orchestra and opera conductors of his time. -
Debussy
Achille Claude Debussy was a French composer, one of the most influential of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Some authors consider him the first Impressionist composer, although he categorically rejected the term -
Jean Sibelius
Was a Finnish composer and violinist from the end of Romanticism and the beginning of Modernism. -
Schönberg
Arnold Schönberg was an Austrian composer, music theorist and painter of Jewish origin. Since he emigrated to the United States in 1934, he adopted the name of Arnold Schoenberg, and this is how it usually appears in English-language publications and around the world. -
Ravel
Joseph Maurice Ravel was a French composer of the 20th century. His work, often linked to Impressionism, also shows a bold neoclassical style and, sometimes, features of Expressionism, and is the result of a complex heritage and musical findings that revolutionized music for piano and orchestra. -
Manuel de Falla
Manuel de Falla y Matheu was a Spanish composer of musical nationalism, one of the most important of the first half of the twentieth century, along with Isaac Albéniz, Enrique Granados, Joaquín Turina and Joaquín Rodrigo, and one of the most important Spanish composers of all time -
Bartok
Béla Viktor János Bartók, known as Béla Bartók, was a Hungarian musician who stood out as a composer, pianist and researcher of folk music from Eastern Europe. He is considered one of the greatest composers of the 20th century. -
Kódaly
Zoltán Kodály was a prominent Hungarian musician whose musical style first went through a post-Romantic-vienna phase and later evolved into its main feature: the mixture of folklore and complex harmonies of the twentieth century, shared with Béla Bartók -
Joanquin Turina
Joaquín Turina Pérez was a Spanish composer and musicologist representing nationalism in the first half of the twentieth century. Manuel de Falla, Isaac Albéniz and he composed the most important works of Impressionism in Spain. His most important works are Danzas fantásticas and La procesión del Rocío. -
Stranvisky
Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky was a Russian composer and conductor and one of the most important and transcendental musicians of the twentieth century. His long life allowed him to get to know a wide variety of musical currents. -
Heitor Villa-Lobos
He was a Brazilian conductor and composer. His music was influenced by both Brazilian folk music and European classical music. He received some musical instruction from his father. -
George Gershwin
Was an American musician, composer and pianist. He is popularly recognized for having managed to make a perfect amalgam between classical music and jazz, which is evident in his prodigious works. -
Messianen
Olivier Messiaen was a French composer, organist, pedagogue and ornithologist, one of the most outstanding musicians of the entire century -
Pierre Schaeffer
Pierre Henri Marie Schaeffer was a French composer. He is considered the creator of the specific music. He is the author of the book entitled Treatise of Musical Objects, where he exposes all his theory about this type of music. He composed different works, all of them based on the technique of specific music -
John Cage
John Milton Cage Jr., artistically John Cage, was an American composer, music theorist, artist and philosopher. Pioneer of random music, electronic music and the non-standard use of musical instruments, Cage was one of the main figures of the post-war avant-garde -
Pierre Henry
Pierre Henry was a French musician, considered the creator, along with Pierre Schaeffer, of so-called concrete music and one of the godfathers of electroacoustic music -
Philipp Glass
Philip Glass is an American minimalist classical music composer. He studied at the Juilliard School in New York. His international recognition increased since the appearance of his opera Einstein on the Beach