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Music History Timeline

  • May 15, 1567

    Claudio Monteverdi

    L'Orfeo
    Died November 28, 1643
  • Heinrich Schutz

    "Il primo libro de madrigali"
    Nov 6, 1672
  • Period: to

    Baroque

  • John Baptise Lully

    John Baptise Lully
    Died March 22 1687. Baroque
  • Arcangelo Corelli

    "Christmas Concerto"
    Died Jan 8 1713
  • Johann Pachelbel

    "Pachelbel's Canon in D"
    Died March 9, 1706
  • Alessandro Scarlatti

    "Il Pompeo"
    Died Oct 22 1725
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Antonio Vivaldi
    Died July 28, 1741
  • George Frideric Handel

    "Messiah"
    Died April 14, 1759
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Johann Sebastian Bach
    "Overture in the French Style"
    Died July 28 1750
  • Christoph Willbald Gluck

    "Orfeo ed Eurdice"
    Died Nov 15,1787
    Classical
  • Carl Friedrich Abel

    Symphony Op. 1 No. 1 in B Flat major
    Died June 20 1787
  • Antonio Soler

    Concerto No. 1 in C Major
    Died Dec 20 1783
  • Joseph Haydn

    Known as "Papa Haydn" or" Father of The Symphony"
    "Trauer"Symphony No. 44
    Died May 31 1809
  • Francois Couperin

    "L'art de toucher le Clavecin
  • Francois Joseph Gossec

    Sei Sonate a due violini e basso op.1
    Died Feb. 16, 1829
  • Luigi Boccherini

    "String Quintet in E"
    Died May 28, 1805
    Classical
  • Period: to

    Classical

  • Muzio Clementi

    "Sonatina in C Major"
    Died March 10 1832
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    "Requiem in D Minor"
    Died Dec 5, 1791
  • Ludwig Van Beethoven

    "Fur Elise"
    March 26, 1827
  • Johann Nepomuk Hummel

    Fantasie for Viola and Orchestra
    Died Oct. 17 1837
  • Franz Schubert

    "The Aprpeggione Sonata
    Died Nov 19 1828
  • Hector Berlioz

    "Symphonie Fantastique"
    Died March 8, 1869
  • Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel

    Died May 14, 1847
  • Felix Mendlelssohn

    Violin Concerto Op. 64
    Died 1847
  • Frederic Chopin

    Nocturnes Op. 9
    Oct. 17 1849
  • Period: to

    Romantic

  • Robert Schumann

    Died July 29,1856
  • Franz Lizet

    "Annees de pelerinage"
    Died in 1886
  • Richard Wagner

    Tristan Und Isolde
    Died 1883
  • Giuseppe Verdi

    Died Jan 27, 1901
  • Clara Wieck Schumann

    Died May 10,1896
  • Bela Bartók

  • Ferde Grofe

    Died April 3, 1972
  • George Gershwin

    Died - July 11, 1937
  • Period: to

    Modern/Jazz

  • Aaron Copland:

  • Samuel Barber

  • John Cage

    Died August 12, 1992
  • Benjamin Britten

    Died December 4, 1976
  • WWI

  • Period: to

    WWI

  • Leonard Bernstein

  • Period: to

    Great Depression

  • Philip Glass

  • Period: to

    WWII

  • John Adams

  • Oklahoma! by Rodgers and Hammerstein