Romantic Era- Present

By Molly_Postupak

  • Rossini (Pesaro, Italy) 1792-1868

  • Franz Peter Schubert (Vienna) 1797-1826

  • Berlioz (La Côte-Saint-André) 1803-1869

  • Frédéric François Chopin (Warsaw) 1810-1849

  • Robert Schumann (Zwickau, Germany) 1810-1856

  • Liszt (Doborján, Hungary) 1811-1886

  • Wagner (Leipzig, Germany) 1813-1883

  • Giuseppe Verdi (Busetto, Italy) 1813-1901

  • Clara Schumann (Leipzig, Germany) 1819-1896

  • Period: to

    Romanticism Era

  • Bedřich Smetana (Litomyšl) 1824-1884

  • Johannes Brahms (Hamburg, Germany) 1833-1867

  • Tchaikovsky (Votkinsk, Russian Empire) 1840-1893

  • Edvard Hagerup Grieg (Bergen, Norway) 1843-1907

  • Puccini (Lucca, Italy) 1858-1923

  • Charles Darwin's "Origin of the Species" is published

  • Gustav Mahler (Kalischt, Moravia) 1860-1911

  • American Civil War Begins

  • Debussy (Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France) 1862-1918

  • Richard Strauss (Munich, Bavaria) 1864-1949

  • Ives (Danbury Connecticut, USA) 1874-1954

  • Joseph-Maurice Ravel (Ciboure, France) 1875-1937

  • Arnold Schönberg (Vienna, Germany) 1875-1951

  • Thomas Edison invents the cylinder phonograph

  • Bartók (Nagyszentmiklós, Hungary) 1881-1945

  • Stravinsky (Oranienbaum, Russia) 1882-1971

  • Orff (Munich, Germany) 1895-1982

  • Jacob Gershwin (Brooklyn, New York, USA) 1898-1937

  • Ellington (Washington DC, USA) 1899-1974

  • Aaron Copland (Brooklyn, New York, USA) 1900-1990

  • Period: to

    Modernism

  • Albert Einstein's introduces Theory of Relativity

  • John Milton Cage, Jr. (Los Angeles, California, USA) 1912-1992

  • WWI Begins

  • Bernstein (Lawrence,Massachusetts, USA) 1918-1990

  • 18th Amendment (Prohibition) Passes

  • 19th Amendment (Women's Suffrage) Passes

  • Great Depression Begins

  • Arvo Pärt (Paide, Järva County, Estonia) 1935-Present

  • Stephen Michael Reich (New York, USA) 1936- Present

  • WWII Begins

  • First Nuclear Weapon Tested

  • Korean War Begins

  • Period: to

    Post-Modernism

  • Transcontinental & Color TV is Introduced

  • Jennifer Higdon (Brooklyn, New York, USA) 1962-Present

  • President JFK is Assassinated

  • Civil Rights Act of 1964 is Signed into Law

  • Martin Luther King Jr. is Assassinated

  • First Home Computer is Produced

  • Soviet Union is Dissolved

  • Terrorists Attack the WTC and the Pentagon

  • Apple Introduces the iPhone

  • Corona Virus Spreads Around the Globe