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991
Guido d’Arezzo
Italian music theorist. Guido d'Arezzo was a Benedictine monk who has gone down in the history of music as one of the most important reformers of the musical notation system. -
1098
Hildegard von Bingen
Hildegard of Bingen was a German Benedictine abbess and polymath saint, active as a composer, writer, philosopher, scientist, naturalist, physician, mystic, monastic leader and prophetess during the Middle Ages. -
1150
Leonin
Con Pérotin, llamado el Grande, y Robert de Sabilon, fueron los tres maestros que colaboraron en la escuela de París. -
Period: 1150 to 1320
Ars antiqua
Ars antiqua, is a term used by modern scholars to refer to the Medieval music of Europe during the High Middle Ages, between approximately 1150 and 1320. -
1160
Perotin
Pérotin also called Perotin the Great, was a European composer, believed to be French, who lived around the end of the 12th and beginning of the 13th century. He was the most famous member of the Notre Dame school of polyphony and the ars antiqua style. -
1221
Alfonso X el Sabio
Alfonso X, conocido como el Sabio, era hijo del monarca castellano-leonés Fernando III y de su esposa la princesa alemana Beatriz de Suabia. Alfonso X fue rey de Castilla y León entre los años 1252, fecha de la muerte de su padre, y 1284, año de su muerte. -
1300
Guillaume de Machaut
Guillaume de Machaut was a French cleric, poet and medieval composer. His projection was enormous and he is historically the maximum representative of the movement known as Ars nova, being considered the most famous composer of the 14th century. -
Period: 1320 to 1400
Ars nova
The Ars Nova was a musical style that flourished mainly in France and Italy during the late Middle Ages in the 14th century. This type of music developed mainly in prestigious environments, such as universities, stately courts and the church. -
1325
Francesco Landini
Francesco Landini is one of the greatest composers of the Italian ars nova in the 14th century. In the Middle Ages, written polyphony emerged in Italy until around 1330 in the northern cities, where Florence became one of the most active musical centers. -
1400
Johannes Gutenberg
The German city of Mainz, with its imposing cathedral, was both the city where the inventor was born and the place where Gutenberg developed the printing press. -
Period: 1400 to
Renassaince
Fifteenth century, great social, cultural and religious
transformations took place in Europe that gave way to a new era. It was
called the Renaissance, because it was intended to "reborn" the ideas of
the ancient Greeks and Romans. -
1440
Printing Press
In 1455, most probably, the first masterpiece of the new art was completed: the famous "42-line" Bible, so called because this is the most frequent number of lines per column in each of its 1,280 pages. -
1468
Juan del Encina
Juan de Fermoselle Encina; (Encinas, Spain, 1469-León, id., 1529) Spanish poet, musician and playwright. -
1483
Martín Lutero
Martin Luther, born Martin Luder, was an Augustinian theologian, philosopher and Catholic friar who started and promoted the Protestant Reformation in Germany and whose teachings inspired the theological and cultural doctrine known as Lutheranism. -
1500
Cristóbal de Morales
Morales composed a large amount of music—the vast majority Latin liturgical compositions—that were steadily issued during his lifetime from music presses -
1510
Antonio de Cabezón
Antonio de Cabezón was a Spanish Renaissance composer and organist. Blind from childhood, he quickly rose to prominence as a performer and was eventually employed by the royal family. -
1525
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina was an Italian composer of late Renaissance music. The central representative of the Roman School, with Orlande de Lassus and Tomás Luis de Victoria, Palestrina is considered the leading composer of late 16th-century Europe. -
1532
Orlando di Lasso
(Mons, present-day Belgium, 1532 - Munich, 1594) Franco-Flemish composer. Also known as Roland de Lassus or Roland de Lattre, his name completes the great triad of 16th century polyphonic music -
1533
Andrea Gabrieli
His style, modeled around that of Lasso, resorts in his early years to the technique of imitation. Homophony is imposed in his maturity, where his extraordinary counterpustantial solidity is also present. His works are generally lighter, but less emotional, than those of his contemporaries, being one of the first Italians to occupy important positions in the Basilica of St. Mark. -
1544
Maddalena Casulana
Maddalena Casulana was an Italian composer, lutenist and singer of the late Renaissance. She is the first female composer to have had a whole book of her music printed and published in the history of western music. -
1548
Tomás Luis de Victoria
Tomás Luis de Victoria was a Catholic priest, chapel master and famous polyphonic composer of the Spanish Renaissance. -
1557
Giovanni Gabrieli
Giovanni Gabrieli ( c. 1554/1557 – 12 August 1612) was an Italian composer and organist. He was one of the most influential musicians of his time, and represents the culmination of the style of the Venetian School, at the time of the shift from Renaissance to Baroque idioms. -
1566
Carlo Gesualdo
Carlo Gesualdo (1566-1613) was Prince of Venosa and Count of Conza.
He was a great-nephew of Pope Pius IV and nephew of St. Charles Borromeo. -
1567
Claudio Monteverdi
Monteverdi wrote nine books full of madrigals, vocal pieces that put the message of the poetry ahead of musical convention. -
Giacomo Carissimi
He was an Italian composer and music teacher. He is one of the most celebrated masters of the early Baroque or, more accurately, the Roman School of music. -
Barbara Strozzi
Barbara Strozzi was the adopted daughter—and likely the illegitimate child—of the poet Giulio Strozzi; her mother, Isabella Garzoni, was a “long-time servant” in Giulio’s household. -
Antonio Stradivarius
Born in about 1644 in Cremona in the Lombardy region of Italy, it's estimated he made over 1,000 instruments in his lifetime, most of which were violins. Approximately 650 have survived, including an estimated 450 to 512 violins. -
Henry Purcel
Purcell's interest in music began when he was a young child. Rumour has it that he composed well at the age of 9. His earliest work is an ode for King Charles' birthday in 1670. -
George Philipp Telemann
He was one of music’s most prolific composers, writing in excess of 3,000 works, or almost three times as many as Bach and five times as many as Mozart. His stylistic range is incredible too, able to write equally proficiently in the French, Italian and German styles. -
Antonio Vivaldi
The young Antonio used to play the violin with his father, Giovanni Battista Vivaldi. Giovanni was a professional violinist who also doubled up as a barber.
During his father’s career, Antonio would accompany him on his performances and concert trips. -
Georg Friedrich Händel
Born in Halle, Germany, in 1685, George Frideric Handel was among the greatest composers of the Baroque era. His walking style and large stature earned him the nickname “the Great Bear.” Handel’s operas, organ concertos, oratorios, and anthems made him famous. -
Johann Sebastian Bach
Johann Sebastian Bach was a renowned composer and musician who lived between 1685 and 1750. He is one of the most celebrated composers of all time and regularly tops lists of the greatest composer of all time. -
IPhone invention
Haha, no, not really 😄 -
Gluck
Christoph Willibald Gluck, later Ritter (knight) von Gluck, (born July 2, 1714, Erasbach, Upper Palatinate, Bavaria—died Nov. 15, 1787, Vienna, Austria), German opera composer. Son of a forester, he ran away to study music in Prague. -
- Nannerl Mozart
Mozart's sister Maria Anna, called "Nannerl" is born at midnight on 31 July. She is the fourth and first surviving child of the couple. This therefore states a birth at midnight between 30 and 31 July. -
- W.A. Mozart
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical era. He was born on January 27, 1756, in Salzburg, which is now in modern-day Austria, and he died on December 5, 1791, in Vienna, Austria. -
- Maria Theresia Von Paradis
Born in Vienna on May 15, 1759; died in Vienna on February 1, 1824; daughter of the imperial secretary in the court of Empress Maria Theresa of Austria (1719–1780); studied with Leopold Kuzeluch and Vincenzo Righini. At age two or three, Maria Theresia von Paradis became completely blind. -
Beethoven
Widely regarded as the greatest composer who ever lived, Ludwig van Beethoven dominates a period of musical history as no one else before or since. Rooted in the Classical traditions of Joseph Haydn and Mozart, his art reaches out to encompass the new spirit of humanism and incipient nationalism expressed in the works of Goethe and Friedrich von Schiller. -
Rossini
Gioachino Rossini (born February 29, 1792, Pesaro, Papal States [Italy]—died November 13, 1868, Passy, near Paris, France) Italian composer noted for his operas, particularly his comic operas, of which The Barber of Seville (1816), Cinderella (1817), and Semiramide (1823) are among the best known. -
- J. Haydn
He left the choir after his voice was described thusly by Habsburg Empress Maria Theresa: "That boy doesn't sing, he crows!" Haydn then cut the pigtail of another boy chorister and was then caned in public. -
- Schubert
Franz Schubert was born in Vienna in 1797. By the time he died in 1828, aged only 31, he had left a substantial body of work, most of it written within the astonishingly short period of about 14 years. -
Berlioz
Hector Berlioz, (born Dec. 11, 1803, La Côte-Saint-André, France—died March 8, 1869, Paris), French composer. -
Mendelssohn
Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy[n 1] (3 February 1809 – 4 November 1847), widely known as Felix Mendelssohn,[n 2] was a German composer, pianist, organist and conductor of the early Romantic period. Mendelssohn's compositions include symphonies, concertos, piano music, organ music and chamber music. -
Schumann
Robert Schumann (born June 8, 1810, Zwickau, Saxony [Germany]—died July 29, 1856, Endenich, near Bonn, Prussia [Germany]) German Romantic composer renowned particularly for his piano music, songs (lieder), and orchestral music. -
Chopin
Frédéric Chopin (born March 1, 1810 [see Researcher's Note: Chopin's birth date], Żelazowa Wola, near Warsaw, Duchy of Warsaw [now in Poland]—died October 17, 1849, Paris, France) -
Verdi
Giuseppe Verdi (born October 9/10, 1813, Roncole, near Busseto, duchy of Parma [Italy]—died January 27, 1901, Milan, Italy) leading Italian composer of opera in the 19th century, noted for operas such as Rigoletto (1851) -
Listz
Franz Liszt (born October 22, 1811, Doborján, kingdom of Hungary, Austrian Empire [now Raiding, Austria]—died July 31, 1886, Bayreuth, Germany) Hungarian piano virtuoso and composer. -
Wagner
Richard Wagner was born on 22nd May 1813 in Leipzig, Germany, the ninth child born to mother, Johanna, and father, Carl, a clerk in the police service. -
Clara Schumann
Clara Schumann (born Sept. 13, 1819, Leipzig, Saxony [Germany]—died May 20, 1896, Frankfurt am Main, Ger.) German pianist, composer, and wife of composer Robert Schumann. -
Smetana
Bedřich Smetana was born on March 2, 1824, in Leitomischl, Bohemia, Austrian Empire (now Litomyšl, Czech Republic). His first music teacher was his father, an amateur violinist. -
Brahms
Johannes Brahms (born May 7, 1833, Hamburg [Germany]—died April 3, 1897, Vienna, Austria-Hungary [now in Austria]) was a German composer and pianist of the Romantic period, who wrote symphonies, concerti, chamber music, piano works, choral compositions, and more than 200 songs. -
Modest Mussorgsky
was a Russian composer, one of the group known as "The Five". He was an innovator of Russian music in the Romantic period. He strove to achieve a uniquely Russian musical identity, often in deliberate defiance of the established conventions of Western music. -
Tchaikovsky
was a Russian composer of the Romantic period. He was the first Russian composer whose music would make a lasting impression internationally. -
Dvorak
Antonín Dvořák (born September 8, 1841, Nelahozeves, Bohemia, Austrian Empire [now in Czech Republic]—died May 1, 1904, Prague) was the first Bohemian composer to achieve worldwide recognition, noted for turning folk material into 19th-century Romantic music. -
Grieg
Edvard Grieg (born June 15, 1843, Bergen, Nor. —died Sept. 4, 1907, Bergen) composer who was a founder of the Norwegian nationalist school of music. -
Rimski Korsakov
Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov, (born March 6 [March 18, New Style], 1844, Tikhvin, near Novgorod, Russia—died June 8 [June 21], 1908, Lyubensk), Russian composer, teacher, and editor who was at his best in descriptive orchestrations suggesting a mood or a place. -
Puccini
Giacomo Puccini (born December 22, 1858, Lucca, Tuscany [Italy]—died November 29, 1924, Brussels, Belgium) Italian composer, one of the greatest exponents of operatic realism, who virtually brought the history of Italian opera to an end. -
Gustav Mahler
Mahler was born on July 7, 1860, in the Bohemian village of Kalischt, to a poor family of Moravian Jews. His father, Bernhard, ran a ramshackle distillery, and regularly thrashed his children and Mahler's mother, Marie. -
Hugo Wolf
Hugo Philipp Jakob Wolf was born on March 13, 1860, in Windischgraz, Austria (now Slovenj Gradec, Slovenia). His father, who had taught himself to play a number of instruments, gave him violin and piano lessons when he was still a small boy. -
Debussy
Born to a family of modest means and little cultural involvement, Debussy showed enough musical talent to be admitted at the age of ten to France's leading music college, the Conservatoire de Paris. He originally studied the piano, -
Schönberg
Schoenberg's approach, both in terms of harmony and development, has shaped much of 20th-century musical thought. Many composers from at least three generations have consciously extended his thinking, whereas others have passionately reacted against it. -
Ravel
Maurice Ravel (born March 7, 1875, Ciboure, France—died December 28, 1937, Paris) French composer of Swiss-Basque descent, noted for his musical craftsmanship and perfection of form and style in such works as Boléro (1928), Pavane pour une infante défunte (1899; Pavane for a Dead Princess), Rapsodie espagnole (1907) -
Manuel de Falla
Falla had his first music lessons in Cádiz. At first he did not know whether he wanted to take music or literature as a career. When he was ten he started to go to music evenings where he heard chamber music being played. Then he started to go to the opera, and he heard church music and orchestral music. He liked the music of Grieg and decided that he wanted to do something similar with Spanish music. -
Bartok
Béla Bartók was born in the Hungarian town of Nagyszentmiklós (now Sînnicolau Mare in Romania) on 25 March 1881, and received his first instruction in music from his mother, a very capable pianist; his father, the headmaster of a local school, was also musical. -
Joaquín Turina
Turina was born in Seville. He studied in Seville as well as in Madrid. He lived in Paris from 1905 to 1914 where he took composition lessons from Vincent d'Indy at the Schola Cantorum de Paris and studied the piano under Moritz Moszkowski. Like his countryman and friend, Manuel de Falla, while in Paris he familiarized himself with the impressionist composers Maurice Ravel and Claude Debussy, whose music had a profound influence on his compositional practice.[2] -
Stravinsky
Stravinsky was born on 17 June 1882 in the town of Oranienbaum (now Lomonosov), on the southern coast of the Gulf of Finland, 25 mi (40 km) west of Saint Petersburg. -
Heitor Villa-Lobos
Heitor Villa-Lobos (March 5, 1887 – November 17, 1959) was a Brazilian composer, conductor, cellist, and classical guitarist described as "the single most significant creative figure in 20th-century Brazilian art music" -
Gershwin
George Gershwin was born in Brooklyn, New York, on 26 September 1898, and began his musical training at thirteen. -
Kódaly
In 1905 he visited remote villages to collect songs, recording them on phonograph cylinders. In 1906 he wrote a thesis on Hungarian folk song, "Strophic Construction in Hungarian Folksong". At around this time Kodály met fellow composer and compatriot Béla Bartók, -
Messiaen
He was an influential French composer, organist, and teacher noted for his use of mystical and religious themes. As a composer he developed a highly personal style noted for its rhythmic complexity, rich tonal colour, and unique harmonic language. -
Pierre Schaeffer
Composer, musician, writer, engineer, professor, broadcaster, acoustician, musicologist, record producer, inventor, entrepreneur, cultural critic etc.. -
John Cage
John Milton Cage Jr.
(September 5, 1912 – August 12, 1992) was an American composer and music theorist. -
Pierre Henry
Pierre Henry was born on 9 December 1927 in Paris, France. He was a composer, known for Altered States (1980), Mean Girls (2004) and I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997). He died on 5 July 2017 in Paris, France. -
Philipp Glass
Philip Glass is an American composer of minimalist classical music. He studied at the Juilliard School in New York. His international recognition has grown since the appearance of his opera Einstein on the Beach. -
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She wants to dance with me
'Cause I'll hold her so tight next to me
She wants to dance with me
'Cause I'll let her be what she wants to be
She wants to dance
She wants to dance
She wants to dance with me
'Cause I'll hold her so tight next to me
She wants to dance with me
'Cause I'll let her be what she wants to be -
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