Romantic Era- Present By Molly_Postupak 1792 Rossini (Pesaro, Italy) 1792-1868 1797 Franz Peter Schubert (Vienna) 1797-1826 1803 Berlioz (La Côte-Saint-André) 1803-1869 1810 Frédéric François Chopin (Warsaw) 1810-1849 1810 Robert Schumann (Zwickau, Germany) 1810-1856 1811 Liszt (Doborján, Hungary) 1811-1886 1813 Wagner (Leipzig, Germany) 1813-1883 1813 Giuseppe Verdi (Busetto, Italy) 1813-1901 1819 Clara Schumann (Leipzig, Germany) 1819-1896 Period: 1820 to 1910 Romanticism Era 1824 Bedřich Smetana (Litomyšl) 1824-1884 1833 Johannes Brahms (Hamburg, Germany) 1833-1867 1840 Tchaikovsky (Votkinsk, Russian Empire) 1840-1893 1843 Edvard Hagerup Grieg (Bergen, Norway) 1843-1907 1858 Puccini (Lucca, Italy) 1858-1923 1859 Charles Darwin's "Origin of the Species" is published 1860 Gustav Mahler (Kalischt, Moravia) 1860-1911 1861 American Civil War Begins 1862 Debussy (Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France) 1862-1918 1864 Richard Strauss (Munich, Bavaria) 1864-1949 1874 Ives (Danbury Connecticut, USA) 1874-1954 1875 Joseph-Maurice Ravel (Ciboure, France) 1875-1937 1875 Arnold Schönberg (Vienna, Germany) 1875-1951 1877 Thomas Edison invents the cylinder phonograph 1881 Bartók (Nagyszentmiklós, Hungary) 1881-1945 1882 Stravinsky (Oranienbaum, Russia) 1882-1971 1895 Orff (Munich, Germany) 1895-1982 1898 Jacob Gershwin (Brooklyn, New York, USA) 1898-1937 1899 Ellington (Washington DC, USA) 1899-1974 1900 Aaron Copland (Brooklyn, New York, USA) 1900-1990 Period: 1900 to 1950 Modernism 1905 Albert Einstein's introduces Theory of Relativity 1912 John Milton Cage, Jr. (Los Angeles, California, USA) 1912-1992 1914 WWI Begins 1918 Bernstein (Lawrence,Massachusetts, USA) 1918-1990 1919 18th Amendment (Prohibition) Passes 1920 19th Amendment (Women's Suffrage) Passes 1929 Great Depression Begins 1935 Arvo Pärt (Paide, Järva County, Estonia) 1935-Present 1936 Stephen Michael Reich (New York, USA) 1936- Present 1939 WWII Begins 1945 First Nuclear Weapon Tested 1950 Korean War Begins Period: 1950 to 2020 Post-Modernism 1951 Transcontinental & Color TV is Introduced 1962 Jennifer Higdon (Brooklyn, New York, USA) 1962-Present 1963 President JFK is Assassinated 1964 Civil Rights Act of 1964 is Signed into Law 1968 Martin Luther King Jr. is Assassinated 1974 First Home Computer is Produced 1991 Soviet Union is Dissolved 2001 Terrorists Attack the WTC and the Pentagon 2007 Apple Introduces the iPhone 2020 Corona Virus Spreads Around the Globe