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Luigi Cherubini (1760-1842)
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Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
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Niccolò Paganini (1782-1840)
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Carl Maria von Weber (1786-1826)
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Giacomo Meyerbeer (1791-1864)
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Gioacchino Rossini (1792-1868)
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Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
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Gaetano Donizetti (1797-1848)
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Vincenzo Bellini (1801-1835)
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Hector Berlioz (1803-1869)
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Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka (1804-1857)
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Felix Mendelssohn (1805-1847)
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Robert Schumann (1810-1856)
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Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849)
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Genres
symphonic poem, program music, lieder, character pieces, choral music (part songs, oratorio, mass, requiem mass), chamber music, opera (grand opera, opéra comique, lyric opera, opérette, bel canto, verismo), music dramas, ballet, orchestral lieder, maximalism -
Franz Liszt (1811-1886)
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War of 1812
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Richard Wagner (1813-1883)
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Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901)
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Clara Schumann Wieck (1819-1896)
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Jacques Offenbach (1819-1880)
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Bedrich Smetana (1824-1884)
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Stephen Foster (1826-1864)
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Louis Moreau Gottschalk (1829-1869)
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Period: to
Decline of the Ottoman Empire
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Alexander Borodin (1833-1887)
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Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
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César Cui (1835-1918)
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Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921)
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Mily Balakirev (1837-1910)
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Telegraphy is patented
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Georges Bizet (1838-1875)
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Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)
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Antonin Dvorak (1841-1904)
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Anesthesia is used for the first time!
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Edvard Grieg (1843-1907)
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Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908)
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Mexican-American War
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Leoš Janáček (1854-1928)
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Cocaine is isolated by Friedrich Gaedcke
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Edward Elgar (1857-1934)
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Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924)
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Phonautograph is invented
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Isaac Albéniz (1860-1909)
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Ignacy Jan Paderewski (1860-1941)
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Gustav Mahler (1860-1911)
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American Civil War
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Frederick Delius (1862-1934)
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Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
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President Lincoln issues the Emancipation Proclamation
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Jean Sibelius (1865-1957)
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13th Amendment is Ratified
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Enrique Granados (1867-1916)
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Dimitri Mendeleev creates the Periodic Table of Elements
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Alexander Scriabin (1872-1915)
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Ralph Vaughn Williams (1872-1958)
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Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943)
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Blue jeans are invented!
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Gustav Holst (1874-1934)
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Manuel de Falla (1876-1946)
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Béla Bartók (1881-1945)
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Zoltán Kodály (1882-1967)
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Ernest Bloch (1885-1977)
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Louis Durey (1888-1979)
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Aspirin is patented
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Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953)
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Darius Milhaud (1892-1974)
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Arthur Honegger (1892-1955)
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Germaine Tailleferre (1892-1983)
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Paul Hindemith (1895-1963)
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Carl Orff (1895-1982)
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Francis Poulenc (1899-1963)
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Georges Auric (1899-1983)
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Kurt Weill (1900-1950)
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Michael Tippett (1905-1998)
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Dimitri Shostakovich (1906-1975)
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Benjamin Britten (1913-1976)
