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Gluck
Christoph Willibald Gluck was a German composer, from the Bohemian region, Czech Republic. He is considered one of the most important opera composers of Classicism in the second half of the 18th century. -
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Classicism
Classicism is the historiographical name of a cultural, aesthetic and intellectual movement, inspired by the aesthetic and philosophical patterns of classical antiquity. -
Nannerl Mozart
Maria Anna Walburga Ignatia Mozart, also called Nannerl and Marianne, was a famous musician of the 18th century. She was the older sister of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and daughter of Leopold and Anna Maria Mozart. -
W.A. Mozart
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was the seventh child, but of his six siblings only one girl, Maria Anna, survived. Considered by many to be the greatest musical genius of all time, he composed an original and powerful work that covered genres as different as comic opera, sacred music and symphonies. -
Maria Theresia Von Paradis
Maria Theresia von Paradis was an Austrian pianist and composer. Although he completely lost his sight from the age of three, this did not prevent the production and work of this great pianist, singer and composer from continuing to stand out. -
Beethoven
Ludwig van Beethoven was a German composer, conductor, pianist and piano teacher. His musical legacy spans, chronologically, from Classicism to the beginnings of Romanticism. -
Franz Schubert
Franz Peter Schubert, known as Franz Schubert, was an Austrian composer of the principles of musical Romanticism and, at the same time, a continuator of the classical sonata following the model of Ludwig van Beethoven. -
J.Haydn
He was an Austrian composer. He is one of the greatest representatives of the Classical period, in addition to being known as the "father of the symphony" and the "father of the string quartet" thanks to his important contributions to both genres. -
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romanticism
Romanticism is a cultural movement that originated in Germany and the United Kingdom at the end of the 18th century as a reaction against the Enlightenment and neoclassicism, giving priority to feelings over reason. -
Claude Debussy
Achille Claude Debussy was a French composer, one of the most influential of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. -
Arnold Schönberg
He was an Austrian composer, musical theorist and painter of Jewish origin. He is recognized as one of the first composers to delve into atonal composition, and especially for the creation of the twelve-tone technique. -
Maurice Ravel
Joseph Maurice Ravel was a 20th century French composer. His work, frequently linked to Impressionism, also shows a bold neoclassical style and, at times, features of Expressionism, and is the fruit of a complex heritage and musical discoveries that revolutionized music for piano and orchestra. -
Manuel de Falla
Manuel de Falla was a Spanish composer of musical nationalism, one of the most important of the first half of the 20th century. -
Béla Bartók
Béla Bartók was a Hungarian musician who stood out as a composer, pianist and researcher of Eastern European folk music. -
Ígor Stravinski
He was a Russian composer and conductor and one of the most important and transcendental musicians of the 20th century. -
Joaquín Turina
Joaquín Turina Pérez was a Spanish composer and musicologist representative of nationalism in the first half of the 20th century. -
Zoltán Kódaly
Zoltán Kodály was a prominent Hungarian musician whose musical style first went through a post-Viennese-Romantic phase and then evolved into its main characteristic: -
Olivier Messiaen
He was a French composer, organist, pedagogue and ornithologist, one of the most prominent musicians of the 20th century. -
Pierre Schaeffer
He was a French composer. He is considered the creator of concrete music. He is the author of the book titled Treatise on Musical Objects, where he exposes his entire theory on this type of music. -
John Cage
He was an American composer, music theorist, artist, and philosopher. A pioneer of aleatoric music, electronic music, and non-standard use of musical instruments, Cage was one of the leading figures of the postwar avant-garde. -
Pierre Henry
He was a French musician, considered the creator, along with Pierre Schaeffer, of the so-called concrete music and one of the godfathers of electroacoustic music. -
Philip Glass
He is an American minimalist classical music composer. His international recognition increased since the appearance of his opera Einstein on the Beach.