Music History Timeline

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  • Period: to

    Beethoven Symphony No. 5 in C minor

    The whole symphony was based on a four-note motif. First symphony to have trombones.

  • Schubert Erlkönig

    A lied poem is an art poem for voice and piano, The voice and piano were equal. Goethe wrote the poem and Shubert wrote the music.

  • Rossini Il Barbiere di Siviglia

    This was a patter aria. The opera was very showy and showed the lower classes.

  • Nicolo Paganini 24 Caprices for Violin, op.1

    Most professional musicians thought this to be unplayable. It is still virtuosic today.

  • Berlioz Symphonie fantastique

    One of the first program pieces. Includes the idea fixe. Had very confusing reviews at first.
  • Period: to

    Frederic Chopin Mazurkas Op.7

    Mazurkas were Polish dances. Chopin wrote these to sound like Polish dances.

  • Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel Das Jahr

    These were character pieces. Fanny Mendelssohn started the salon culture.

  • Louis Moreau Gottschalk Souvenir de Porto Rico

    This was based on music in Puerto Rico.

  • Mussorgsky Pictures at an Exhibition

    A piece inspired by walking through an art museum. It has 10 movments.

  • Bizet Carmen

    It is a comic opera with spoken dialogue over a recitative.

  • Wagner Der Ring des Nibelungen

    Took Wagner 4 years to complete the whole Ring Cycle. One of the biggest productions to this day.

  • Brahms' Symphony No.4

  • Mahler Symphony No.1

    The first movement is supposed to be the sounds of nature. The second movement was supposed to be happy and joyful. The third movement had "Frere Jacques" as the theme. The fourth is another finding the victory through the storm.

  • Claude Debussy “Voiles” from Préludes Book

    1910

  • Arnold Schönberg Pierrot Lunaire

    1912

  • Igor Stravinsky The Rite of Spring (premiere)

    premiere date

  • Manuel de Falla Homenaje (Homage)

    1920

  • George and Ira Gershwin “I Got Rhythm”

    1930

  • Margaret Bonds “The Negro Speaks of Rivers”

    1936

  • Dimitri Shostakovich Symphony No.5 premiere

    premiere date

  • Duke Ellington Cottontail

    1940

  • Aaron Copland Appalachian Spring

    1943

  • John Cage Sonatas and Interludes for Prepared Piano

    1948

  • Miles Davis Kind of Blue

    1957

  • George Crumb Ancient Voices of Children

    1970

  • John Adams Short Ride in a Fast Machine

    1986