History of Music (Romantic Era to the Present Day)

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    Gioachino Rossini

    Italian composer during the Early Romantic era
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    Franz Schubert

    Austrian composer during the Late Classical/Early Romantic era
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    Louis Berlioz

    French composer during the Early Romantic era
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    Frederic Chopin

    Polish composer during the Early Romantic era
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    Robert Schumann

    German composer/music critic during the Early Romantic era
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    Franz Liszt

    Hungarian composer during the Early Romantic era
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    Wilhelm Richard Wagner

    German composer during the Middle Romantic era
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    Giuseppe Verdi

    Italian composer during the Middle Romantic era
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    Clara Schumann

    German composer during the Middle Romantic era
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    Romantic Era

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    Bedrich Smetana

    Bohemian composer during the Middle Romantic era
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    Johannes Brahms

    German composer during the Middle Romantic era
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    Pytor Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Russian composer during the Late Romantic era
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    Edvard Hagerup Grieg

    Norwegian composer during the Middle Romantic era
  • Phonautograph patented

    The phonautograph is the earliest known audio recording device.
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    Giacomo Puccini

    Italian composer during the Late Romantic/Early 20th Century era
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    Gustav Mahler

    Czech composer during the Late Romantic era
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    American Civil War

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    Claude Debussy

    French composer during the Early Modernist/Impressionist era
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    Richard Strauss

    German composer during the Late Romantic era
  • Lincoln assassinated by Booth at Ford's Theater

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    Charles Ives

    American composer (and Executive of a Life Insurance company) during the Early 20th Century era
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    Joseph-Maurice Ravel

    French composer during the Early Modern/Impressionist era
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    Arnold Schonberg

    Austrian composer during the Early 20th Century era
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    Bela Bartok

    Hungarian composer during the Early 20th Century era
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    Igor Stravinsky

    Russian composer during the Early 20th Century
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    Modernist Era

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    Impressionist Era

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    Carl Orff

    German composer during the 20th Century/Modern era
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    Jacob Gershwin

    American composer during the 20th Century/Jazz Classical Crossover era
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    Duke Ellington

    American composer and bandleader during the 20th Century/Swing era
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    Expressionist Era

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    Aaron Copland

    American composer during the Early-Mid 20th Century era
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    John Cage

    American composer during the Mid-late 20th Century era
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    World War I

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    Louis (Leonard) Bernstein

    American composer during the Late 20th Century era
  • Yankees win their 1st World Series under manager Miller Huggins

  • Stephen Reich (1936-)

    American composer during the Late 20th Century/Present era
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    World War II

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    Yankees win 5 World Series in a row

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    Vietnam War

  • Jennifer Higdon (1962-)

    American composer during the 21st Century era
  • Beatles perform on the Ed Sullivan Show

  • Jets win Super Bowl III

  • Apollo 11 lands on the Moon

  • Release of The Rolling Stones album "Some Girls"

    This is their best selling album in the US
  • The "Miracle on Ice"

    The U.S. Olympic Hockey Team upset the heavily favored Soviet Hockey Team during the Gold Medal game of the 1980 Winter Olympics.
  • Eradication of Smallpox

  • Fall of the Berlin Wall

  • The New York Rangers win the 1994 Stanley Cup Finals

    This was the Rangers' first Cup win since 1940
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    Yankees win 3 World Series in a row

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    Postmodern/21st Century Era

  • al Qaeda crashes planes into the World Trade Center

  • Yankees win their 27th World Series title

  • Osama bin Laden killed by Navy Seals during a raid