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	Major eras of classical music	Composers listed by dates of birth
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	Major eras of Classical music Each era is defined by distinct styles and the composers who shaped them.
	Medieval (500–1400) Monophonic plainchant, early polyphony, and religious focus. Hildegard of Bingen (1098–1179) Renaissance Era (c. 1400–1600)Growth of polyphony, secular madrigals, and modal harmony. Byrd, William : c. 1540 –1623 Monteverdi, Claudio : 1567 –1643 (Transitioned into the Baroque era) Palestrina, Giovanni Pierluigi da : c. 1525 –1594 Tallis, Thomas : c. 1505 1585 Baroque Era (c. 1600–1750) Development of counterpoint, the fugue, opera, and complex ornamentation. Bach, Johann Sebastian : 1685 –1750 Handel, George Frideric : 1685 –1759 Vivaldi, Antonio : 1678 –1741 Classical Era (c. 1750–1820)Emphasis on structural clarity, symmetry, order, and the sonata form. Beethoven, Ludwig van : 1770 – 26 1827 (Transitioned into the Romantic era) Haydn, Joseph : 1732 –1809 Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus : 1756 –1791	Romantic Era (c. 1820–1900 Intense emotionality, programmatic storytelling, nationalism, and massive orchestras. Brahms, Johannes : 1833 –1897 Chopin, Frédéric : 1810 –1849 Dvořák, Antonín : 1841 –1904 Schumann, Robert : 1810 –1856 Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilyich : 1840 –1893 Wagner, Richard : 1813 –1883 Verdi, Giuseppe : 1813 –1901 20th Century & Modern Era (c. 1900–Present) Avant-garde, experimental styles, serialism, impressionism, and electronic music. Debussy, Claude : 1862 1918 Strauss, Richard s: 1864 –1949 Holst, Gustav : 1874 –1934 Rachmaninoff, Sergei : 1873 –1943 Stravinsky, Igor : 1882 –1971 Shostakovic, Dmitri: 1906 – 1975

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	Composers listed according to their dates of birth The names are all linked to their Wikipedia pages
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	Hildegard von Bingen (1098–1179) John Taverner 1490 – 1545 Josquin des Prez c.1450 – 1521		Byrd, William : c. 1540 –1623 de Monte Philippe (1521 – 1603 Dowland, John 1563 – 1626 Palestrina, Giovanni: c. 1525 –1594 Shepperd, John 1515 - 1558 Sweelinck, Jan 1562 – 1621 Tallis, Thomas : c. 1505 1585	Allegri, Gregorio 1582 – 1652 Campion, Thomas 1567 – 1620 Gabrieli, Giovanni c. 1554/1557 – 1612 Gesualdo, Carlo da Venosa 1566 – 1613 Gibbons, Orlando 1583 – 1625 Monteverdi, Claudio : 1567 –1643 Schütz, Heinrich 1585 - 1672 Tomkins, Thomas (1572 – 1656
	1600 - 1649	1650 - 1699	1700 - 1749	1750 - 1799
	Buxtehude, Dieterich c. 1637 – 1707 Charpentier, Marc-Antoine 1643 – 1704 Lully, Jean-Baptiste 1632 – 1687 Strozzi, Barbara 1619 – 1677 Very few other well-known composers of this period. They are all listed here	Albinoni, Tomaso 1671 – 1751 Arne, Thomas 1710 – 1778 Bach, Johann Sebastian : 1685 –1750 Caldara, Antonio 1670 – 1736 Corelli, Arcangelo 1653 – 1713 Couperin, François 1668 – 1733 Geminiani, Francesco 1687 – 1762 Handel, George Frideric : 1685 –1759 Pachelbel, Johann 1653 - 1706 Purcell,Henry 1659 -1695 Rameau, Jean-Philippe 1683 – 1764 Scarlatti Giuseppe Domenico 1685 – 1757 Telemann, Georg Philipp 1681- 1767 Vivaldi, Antonio : 1678 –1741	Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel 1714 –1788 Bach, Johann Christian1735 – 1782 Bologne, Joseph; (Chevalier de Saint-George) 1745 – 1799 Haydn,Joseph : 1732 –1809 Gluck, Christoph Willibrand 1714 – 1787 Pergolesi, Giovanni 1710 – 1736	Beethoven, Ludwig van : 1770 –1827 Bréval, Jean-Baptiste 1753 – 1823 Cherubini, Maria Luigi 1760 – 1842 Donizetti, Domenico 1797 – 1848 Haydn, Johann Michael 1737 – 1806 Hummel, Johann Nepomuk 1778 – 1837 Field, John 1782 – 23 January 1837 Meyerbeer, Giacomo 1791 – 1864 Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus : 1756 –1791 Paganini, Niccolò 1782 – 1840 Rossini, Gioachino 1792 – 1868) Salieri, Antonio 1750 – 1825 Schubert, Franz Peter 1797 –1828) Spohr, Louis 1784 – 1859 Weber, Carl Maria von 1786 – 1826
	1800 - 1849	1850 - 1899	1900 - 1949	1950 - present
	Alkan, Charles-Valentin 1813 – 1888 Balakirev, Mily 1837 - 1910 Berlioz,Louis-Hector 1803 – 1869 Bizet,Georges 1838 – 1875 Borodin, Alexander 1833 – 1887 Brahms Johannes : 1833 –1897 Bruch, Max 1838 – 1920 Bruckner,Anton 1824 - 1896 Chabrier, Alexis-Emmanuel 1841 – 1894 Chopin, Frédéric : 1810 –1849 Cui, César 1835 – 1918 Delibes, Clément 1836 – 1891 Dvořák, Antonín : 1841 –1904 Fauré, Gabriel Urbain 1845 – 1924 Franck, César 1822 –1890 Glinka, Mikhail 1804 – 1857 Gounod, Charles-François 1818 – 1893) Grieg, Edvard 1843 – 1907 Lalo, Édouard 1823 – 1892 Liszt, Franz 1811 - 1886 Massenet, Jules 1842 – 1912 Mayer, Emilie 1812 – 1883 Mendelssohn, Fanny 1805 – 1847 Mendelssohn,Felix 1809 – 1847 Mussorgsky, Modest 1839 – 1881 Offenbach, Jacques 1819 – 1880 Parry, Charles 1848 – 1918 Ponchielli, Amilcare 1834 – 1886 Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolai 1844 – 1908 Saint-Saëns, Charles-Camille 1835 – 1921 Schumann, Clara 1819 – 1896 Schumann, Robert : 1810 –1856 Smetana, Bedřich 1824 – 1884 Strauss, Johann I 1804 – 1849 Strauss, Johann II 1825 – 1899 Sullivan, Arthur 1842 – 1900 von Suppé, 1819 – 1895 Tchaikovsky, Pyotr : 1840 –1893 Verdi, Giuseppe : 1813 –1901 Vieuxtemps, Henri 1820 – 1881 Wagner, Richard : 1813 –1883	Albéniz, Isaac 1860 – 1909 Bartók, Béla 1881 – 1945 Bax, Arnold 1883 – 1953 Beach, Amy 1867 – 1944 Berg, Alban 1885 – 1935 Bloch, Ernest 1880 – 1959 Bonis, "Mel" 1858 – 1937 Boulanger, Nadia 1887 – 1979 Busoni, Ferruccio 1866 – 1924 Bridge, Frank 1879 – 1941 Canteloube, Marie-Joseph 1879 – 1957 Chaminade, Cécile 1857 – 1944 Chausson, Amédée-Ernest 1855 – 1899 Coates, Eric 1886 –1957) Coleridge-Taylor, Samuel 1875 – 1912 Delius, Frederick 1862 – 1934 Debussy, Claude : 1862 1918 Dohnányi, Ernst von 1877 – 1960 Dukas, Paul 1865 – 1935 Elgar, Edward 1857 – 1934 Enescu, George 1881 – 1955 de Falla, Manuel 1876 - 1946 Gershwin, George 1898 – 1937 Giordano, Umberto 1867 – 1948 Glazunov, Alexander 1865 – 1936 Grainger, Percy 1882 – 1961 Gurney, Ivor 1890 – 1937 Hindemith, Paul 1895 – 1963 Holst, Gustav : 1874 –1934 Honegger, Oscar-Arthur 1892 – 1955 Humperdinck, Engelbert 1854 – 1921 Ibert, Jacques 1890 – 1962 Ireland, John 1879 – 1962 Ives, Charles 1874 – 1954 Janáček, Leoš 1854 – 1928 Joplin, Scott 1868 – 1917 Kodály, Zoltán 1882 – 1967 Korngold, Erich 1897 – 1957 Lehár, Franz 1870 – 1948 Leoncavallo, Ruggero 1857 – 1919 MacCunn, Hamish 1868 – 1916 Martin, Frank 1890 – 1974 Martinů, Bohuslav 1890 – 1959 Milhaud, Darius 1892 – 1974 Nielsen, Carl August 1865 – 1931 Orff, Carl 1895 – 1982 Poulenc, Francis 1899 – 1963 Price, Florence 1887/88 – 1953 Prokofiev, Sergei 1891 – 1953 Puccini, Giacomo 1858 – 1924 Rachmaninoff, Sergei : 1873 –1943 Ravel, Joseph 1875 – 1937 Reger, Johann 1873 – 1916 Respighi, Ottorino 1879 – 1936 Satie, Erik 1866 – 1925 Schoenberg, Arnold 1874 – 1951 Scriabin, Alexander 1872 - 1915 Sibelius, Jean 1865 – 1957 Smyth, Ethel 1858 – 1944 Sousa, John Philip 1854 – 1932 Stanford, Charles 1852 – 1924 Strauss, Richard : 1864 –1949 Stravinsky, Igor : 1882 –1971 Suk, Josef 1874 – 1935 Szymanowski, Karol 1882 – 1937 Villa-Lobos, Heitor 1887 – 1959 Webern, Anton 1883 – 1945 Wolf, Hugo 1860 – 1903	Adams, John 1947 Addinsell, Richard 1904 – 1977- Arnold, Malcolm 1921 - 2006 Barber, Samuel 1910 – 1981 Benjamin, Arthur 1893 – 1960 Berio, Luciano 1925 2003 Bernstein, Leonard 1918 – 1990 Birtwistle, Harrison 1934 – 2022 Boulez, Pierre 1925 – 2016 Bourgeois, Derek 1941 – 2017 Cage, John 1912 – 1992 Cardew, Cornelius 1936 – 1981 Carter, Elliott Jr. 1908 – 2012 Copland, Aaron 1900 – 1990 Dallapiccola, Luigi 1904 – 1975 Duruflé, Maurice 1902 – 1986 Dutilleux, Henri 1916 – 2013 Finzi, Gerald 1901 – 1956 Gipps, Ruth 1921 – 1999 Glass, Philip 1937- Górecki, Henry 1933 – 2010) Harvey, Jonathan 1939 – 2012 Henze, Hans Werner 1926 – 2012 Hoddinott, Alun 1929 – 2008 Holst, Imogen 1907 – 1984 Jenkins, Karl 1944 - Kabalevsky, Dmitry 1904 – 1987 Khachaturian, Aram 1903 – 1978 Lambert, Leonard 1905 – 1951 Ligeti, György 1923 – 2006 Lutosławski, Witold 1913 – 1994 Maxwell Davies, Peter 1934 – 2016 Messiaen, Olivier 1908 – 1992 Panufnik, Andrzej 1914 – 1991 Pärt, Arvo 1935 - Penderecki, Krzysztof 1933 – 2020 Reich, Stephen 1936- Riley, Terrence 1935- Rodrigo, Joaquín , 1901 – 1999 Russell, George 1923 – 2009 Rutter, John 1945- Shostakovich, Dmitri : 1906 – 1975 Stockhausen, Karlheinz 1928 – 2007 Takemitsu, Tōru 1930 – 1996 Tavener, John 1944 – 2013 Tippett, Michael 1905 – 1998 Walton, William 1902 – 1983 Weill, Kurt 1900 – 1950 Williams, Grace 1906 – 1977 Williams, John 1932-	Adès, Thomas 1971 - Márquez, Arturo 1950- Traill, John Late 1979 - present

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