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Period: 500 to Dec 31, 1419
Medieval Period
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Oct 14, 1100
Hildegard von Bingen
One of the first women composers. -
Oct 14, 1300
Guillaume de Machaut
Medieval Composer Made form fixes popular -
Oct 14, 1400
John Dunstable
Composer of Alma Redemptoris -
Period: Jan 1, 1420 to
Renaissance
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Oct 14, 1470
Printing Press Invented
This invention helped music accessible to the public -
Oct 14, 1500
Josquin des Prez
Renaissance composer He wrote many masses -
Oct 14, 1580
John Dowland
Composed "Flow My Tears" -
William Byrd
William Byrd was a composer who helped introduce the idea of polyphony. -
Period: to
Baroque
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Claudio Monteverdi
composer of the opera L'Orfeo -
Henry Purcell
Composer of the Opera Dido and Aeneas -
J.S. Bach
Johann Sebastian Bach introduced the theory that is still studied today...Counterpoint -
Vivaldi
Composer of the Four Seasons -
George Frideric Handel
Composer of the piece Music for the Royal Fireworks -
Period: to
Classical
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Haydn
Composer of the piece Surprise Symphony -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
One of the most famous composers of music history. -
Ludwig van Beethoven
Another famous composer of Fur Elise, Moonlight Sonata -
Schubert
Composer of the "Unfinished Symphony" -
Period: to
Romantic
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Hector Berlioz
Composed Symphonie Fantastique -
Chopin
Composer of Heroic -
Tchaikovsky
Composed the Nutcracker -
Period: to
20th Century
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Claude Debussy
Composed La Mer -
Mahler
Composed his own Eighth Symphony -
Stravinsky
Composed The Rite of Spring -
Rachmaninoff
Composed The Rhapsody of a Theme for Paganini -
Richard Strauss
Composer of The Four Last Songs -
John Cage
Composer of 4'33 -
Gregorian Chant
Pope Gregory I helped with the notation of music. Introduced music of the Christian church.
