Composers & Musical Movements
Movements:
• Renaissance 1450-1600
• Baroque 16001750
• Classical 1750-1820
• Romantic 1820-1910
• Modern 1910-Present
Composers:
• Bach, Johann Sebastian: German, 1685-1750, Baroque, Brandenburg Concerti, Well-Tempered Clavier, The Art
of Fugue
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Beethoven, Ludwig van: German, 1770-1827, Classical, Numbered symphonies: Third (Eroica), Fifth, Sixth
(Pastoral), Seventh, Ninth (Choral)
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Berlioz, Hector: French, 1803-1869, Romantic, Symphonie Fantastique, Harold in Italy, Roman Carnival
Overture
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Bernstein, Leonard: American, 1918-1990, Modern, Candide, On the Town, West Side Story
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Bizet, Georges: French, 1838-1875, Romantic: Carmen, L’Minuetto
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Brahms, Johannes: German, 1833-1897, Romantic, friends with Schumann, four symphonies (Ein Deutsches
Requiem), two piano concerti, violin concerto, clarinet quintet
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Chopin, Frederic: Polish, 1810-1849, Romantic, pianist, short pieces (Rondos)
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Debussy, Claude: French, 1862-1918, Modern, La Mer
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Dvorak, Anton: Bohemian, 1841-1904, Romantic: Symphony in E Minor, “From the New World”
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Elgar, Sir Edward William: English, 1857-1934, most famous English composer, Pomp and Circumstance
(graduation march)
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Gabrieli, Giovanni, Italian, 1555-1612, Renaissance
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Gershwin, George: American, 1898-1937, Modern, Rhapsody in Blue, An American in Paris, Porgy and Bess,
Piano Concerto in F
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Handel, George Frederic: German-born English composer, 1685-1759, Baroque, Messiah (Hallelujah Chorus)
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Haydn, Joseph: Austrian, 1732-1809, Classical, 104 symphonies, created the symphony form, Surprise
Symphony, London Symphonies
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Holst, Gustav: British, 1874-1934, Romantic, The Planets
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Mahler, Gustav: Austrian, 1860-1911, Romantic, Symphonies 1 through 10
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Mendelssohn, Felix: German, 1809-1847, 5 symphonies, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Wedding March)
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Monteverdi, Claudio: Italian, 1567-1643, Baroque, L’Orfeo
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Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus: Austrian, 1756-1791, Classical, Requiem, Nozze di Figaro, Don Giovanni, over 600
pieces
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Pachelbel, Johannes: German, 1653-1706, Baroque, Canon in D
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Puccini, Giacomo: Italian, 1858-1924: operas, Madame Butterfly, La Boheme, Tosca
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Rossini, Gioacchino: Italian, 1792-1868, Romantic: William Tell Overture, The Barber of Seville
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Saint-Saens, Camille: French, 1835-1921, Romantic: Carnival of the Animals
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Scarlatti, Domenico: Spanish, 1685-1757, Baroque, sonatas
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Schubert, Franz Peter: Austrian, 1797-1828, composed possibly more than Mozart, sonatas, symphonies,
religious, etc.
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Schumann, Robert Alexander: German, 1810-1856, Romantic, Third Symphony (Rhenish) known as “Queen of
Symphonies, wife Clara also well known composer
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Shostakovich, Dimitri: Russian, 1906-1975, Modern, symphonies
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Sibelius, Jean: Finnish, 1865-1957, Finlandia, Karelia
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Strauss, Richard: German, 1864-1949, Romantic: Don Juan, Also Sprach Zarathustra
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Strauss Jr., Johann: Austrian, 1825-1899, Romantic: Blue Danube, Thunder & Lighting Polka, known as “The
Waltz King”
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Stravinsky, Igor: Russian, 1882-1971, Modern, The Rite of Spring, Firebird Suite
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Tchaikovsky, Piotr Ilyitch: Russian, 1840-1893, Modern, Nutcracker Suite, Swan Lake, 1812 Overture,
Pathetique
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Verdi, Giuseppe: Italian, 1813-1901, Romantic: Aida, Falstaff, La Traviata
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Vivaldi, Antonio Lucio: Italian, 1678-1741, Baroque, The Four Seasons
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Wagner, Richard: German, 1813-1883, Romatnic: The Ring, other operas, Hitler loved him
Aida
Opera
Giuseppe Verdi
1871
Carmen
Opera
Georges Bizet
1845
Messiah
Oratorio
George Frideric Handel
1741
Appalachian Spring
Ballet
Aaron Copland
1944
Symphony No. 6, "Pastoral"
Symphony
Ludwig van Beethoven
1808
Rigoletto
Opera
Giuseppe Verdi
1851
The Marriage of Figaro
Opera
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
1784
The Ring of the Nibelung
Opera
(Wilhelm) Richard Wagner
1876
Symphonie fantastique
Symphony
(Louis-)Hector Berlioz
1830
Don Giovanni
Opera
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
1787
The Rite of Spring
Ballet
Igor (Fyodorovich) Stravinsky
1913
William Tell
Opera
Gioacchino Rossini
1804
Madama Butterfly
Opera
Giacomo (Antonio Domenico Michele Secondo
Maria) Puccini
1904
The Magic Flute
Opera
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
1791
La Bohème
Opera
Giacomo (Antonio Domenico Michele Secondo
Maria) Puccini
1896
The Nutcracker
Ballet
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
1892
The Four Seasons
Concerto
Antonio Vivaldi
1725
Fidelio
Opera
Ludwig van Beethoven
1805
Rhapsody in Blue
composition
George Gershwin
1924
Symphony No. 3, "Eroica"
Symphony
Ludwig van Beethoven
1804
The Song of the Earth
Symphony
Gustav Mahler
1909
West Side Story
Musical
Leonard Bernstein
1957
The Planets
Suite
Gustav(us Theodore von) Holst
1918
The Phantom of the Opera
Musical
Andrew Lloyd Webber
1910
Moonlight Sonata
Sonata
Ludwig van Beethoven
1801
Symphony No. 9, "Great"
Symphony
Franz (Peter) Schubert
1825
Boléro
composition
(Joseph) Maurice Ravel
1928
Porgy and Bess
Opera
George Gershwin
1935
The Mikado
Musical
William S. Gilbert (words) and Arthur Sullivan
(music)
1885
The Flying Dutchman
Opera
(Wilhelm) Richard Wagner
1843
Amahl and the Night Visitors
Opera
Gian-Carlo Menotti
1951
Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini composition
Sergey (Vasilyevich) Rachmaninov
1934
Peter and the Wolf
composition
Sergei (Sergeyevich) Prokofiev
1936
A German Requiem
Sacred choral
work
Johannes Brahms
1868
Symphony No. 6, "Pathétique"
Symphony
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
1893
Falstaff
Opera
Giuseppe Verdi
1893
Turandot
Opera
Giacomo (Antonio Domenico Michele Secondo
Maria) Puccini
1762
Cats
Musical
Andrew Lloyd Webber
1982
Pictures at an Exhibition
composition
Modest (Petrovich) Mussorgsky
1874
Carmina Burana
Cantata
Carl Orff
1936
Boris Godunov
Opera
Modest (Petrovich) Mussorgsky
1869
Symphony No. 41, "Jupiter"
Symphony
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
1788
Symphony of a Thousand
Symphony
Gustav Mahler
1907
Prelude to the Afternoon of a
Faun
Ballet
(Achille-)Claude Debussy
1894
Symphony No. 9, "From the New
Symphony
World"
Antonín (Leopold) Dvorák
1893
Symphony No. 9, "Choral"
Symphony
Ludwig van Beethoven
1823
Salome
Opera
Richard (Georg) Strauss
1905
La Traviata
Opera
Giuseppe Verdi
1853
Hungarian Rhapsodies
composition
Franz Liszt
1846
The Threepenny Opera
Opera
Kurt Weill
1928