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Christoph W. Gluck
He was a German composer, from the Bohemian region, Czech Republic. He is considered one of the most important opera composers of Classicism in the second half of the 18th century. -
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J. Haydn
He is one of the greatest representatives of the Classical period, in addition to being known as the "father of the symphony" and the "father of the string quartet." -
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Classicism
In the mid-1700s in Europe, a new movement began to emerge in architecture, literature and the arts known as classicism. -
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Nannerl Mozart
She was a famous musician from the Classicism and the older sister of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart -
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W. A. Mozart
He 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. -
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Maria Theresia von Paradis
She was an austrian pianist and composer from the Classicim. When she was just three years old, she lost her sight, but that didn´t stop her from making music -
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Ludwig van Beethoven
He was a german composer, conductor, pianist and piano teacher. His musical legacy spans from the Classicim to the start of the Romanticism -
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Rossini
He was an Italian composer who made more than 30 operas, although he also wrote many songs, some chamber music and piano pieces and some sacred music. -
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Franz Schubert
He was an Austrian composer of the early Romanticism but he continued doing the classic sonata, inspired by Beethoven. -
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Romanticism
Cultural movement that originated in Germany and the United Kingdom at the end of the 18th century as a reaction against the Enlightenment and neoclassicism. -
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Berlioz
He was a French composer and a leading figure of romanticism and his best-known work is the Fantastic Symphony. -
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Mendelssohn
He was a German composer, conductor and pianist of romantic music. -
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Robert Schumann
He was a German composer, pianist and music critic of the Romanticism and he is now considered one of the most important composers of that time. -
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Frédéric Chopin
He was a French-Polish teacher, composer and virtuoso pianist, considered one of the most important in history and one of the greatest representatives of Romanticism, especially the musical -
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Franz Liszt
He was an Austro-Hungarian romantic composer, a great pianist, conductor, piano teacher, arranger and lay Franciscan. -
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Verdi
He was an Italian romantic opera composer, one of the most important of all time. -
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Wagner
He was a German composer, conductor, poet, essayist, playwright and musical theorist of Romanticism. He is best known for his operas -
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Clara Schumann
She was a German pianist, composer and piano teacher. Her career was key in the dissemination of the compositions of her husband, Robert Schumann. -
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Smetana
He was a composer born in Bohemia, a region that during the musician's lifetime was part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. He was one of the pioneer musicians of nationalism, in his case the Czech -
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Johannes Brahms
He was a German composer, pianist and conductor of the Romanticism, considered the most classic of the composers of that era. -
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Mussorgsky
He was a Russian composer, a member of the group "The Five", along with Korsakov, for example. -
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Piotr Ilich Chaikovski
He was a Russian composer of the Romantic period. He is the author of some of the most famous works of classical music today, especially ballets. -
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Dvorak
He was a post-romantic composer from Bohemia and one of the first Czech composers to achieve worldwide recognition. -
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Grieg
He was a Norwegian composer and pianist, considered one of the main representatives of late Romanticism. -
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Nikolái Rimski-Kórsakov
He was a Russian composer, conductor and pedagogue, member of the group of composers known as The Five. -
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Puccini
He was an Italian opera composer, considered among the greatest, of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He created lots of concepts of the music that was going to appear in movies, later in that period -
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Hugo Wolf
He was an Austrian composer of Slovenian origin, who lived during the final years of the 19th century in Vienna. He was really inspired by Richard Wagner when he made music -
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Gustav Mahler
He was an Austro-Bohemian composer and conductor whose works are considered the most important of the post-Romanticism era. -
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Debussy
He was a French composer, one of the most influential of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Some consider him the first impressionist composer. -
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Sibelius
He was a Finnish composer and violinist of the late Romanticism and early Modernism. -
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Schönberg
He was an Austrian composer, music theorist and painter of Jewish origin who emigrated to the United States. -
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Ravel
He was a French composer of the 20th century. His work, sometimes impressionistic, also shows a style of neoclassicism and, sometimes, features of expressionism. -
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Manuel de Falla
He was a Spanish composer of musical nationalism, one of the most important of the first half of the 20th century. -
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Béla Bartók
He was a Hungarian musician who stood out as a composer, pianist and researcher of Eastern European folk music. -
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Kódaly
He was a Hungarian musician whose musical style was first post-romantic and then evolved towards its main characteristic: the mixture of folklore and the 20th century. -
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Joaquín Turina
He was a Spanish composer and musicologist representative of nationalism in the first half of the 20th century. He and other composers composed the most important works of Impressionism in Spain. -
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Stravinsky
He was a Russian composer and conductor and one of the most important and transcendental musicians of the 20th century. -
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Heitor Villa-Lobos
He was a Brazilian conductor and composer. His music was influenced by both Brazilian folk music and European classical music. -
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George Gershwin
He was an American musician, composer and pianist. He is popularly known for having managed to make a perfect mix between classical music and jazz. -
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Messiaen
He was a French composer, organist, pedagogue and ornithologist, one of the most outstanding musicians of the entire 20th century. -
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Pierre Schaeffer
This French composer 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. -
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John Cage
He was an American composer, music theorist, artist and philosopher. He was a pioneer of aleatoric music, electronic music and the unusual use of musical instruments. -
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Pierre Henry
He was a French musician, considered the creator, along with Pierre Schaeffer, of the so-called concrete music and one of the godfathers of electroacoustic music. -
Philip Glass
He is an American minimalist classical music composer and his international recognition increased since the appearance of his opera Einstein on the Beach.