Composers
Baroque Period 1600 - 1750
Antonio Vivaldi
George Philipp Telemann
George Frederic Handel
Johann Sebastian Bach
Wrote “Four Seasons Violin Concerti” plus others.
Composed over 3000 works.
Wrote “The Messiah” and hundreds of other works.
Wrote the “Brandenburg Concertos” plus 100s of
works.
Classical Period 1750 – 1850
Franz Joseph Haydn
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Wrote 104 symphonies plus many other works.
Began composing at age 7. Music still played world
wide.
Ludwig Van Beethoven
Composed for piano, orchestra, choral music. Wrote
“Symphony No. 9” when he was deaf.
Romantic Period 1825 – 1900 / Contemporary - 1970
Gioachino Antonio Rossini
Felix Mendelssohn
Frederic Chopin
Richard Wagner
Johann Strauss
Peter Tchaikovsky
Johannes Brahms
Modest Musorgsky
Antonin Dvorak
Edvard Grieg
Sir Edward Elgar
Giacomo Puccini
Claude Debussy
Richard Strauss
Igor Stravinsky
Most popular opera composer. Wrote the “William
Tell Overture”.
Composed “Mid Summer Nights Dream” and many
other works.
Virtuoso pianist. Composed some of the worlds
finest piano works.
Composed some of the finest operas ever.
Composed “Die Valkure” or “The Vulture”.
The “King of the Waltz”, including “The Blue
Danube”.
Composed “Swan Lake”, “1812 Overture”, “Romeo
and Juliet”, “The Nutcracker”.
Wrote many full scale orchestral works. Most
famous tune was the Brahms “Lullaby”.
Composed “Pictures at an Exhibition”, “Night on
Bald Mountain” and many others.
Famous for “The New World Symphony”.
Composed The “Peer Gynt Suite” and other famous
pieces.
Composed “Pomp and Circumstance”.
Famous opera composer.
Most famous work “Prelude to the Afternoon of a
Fawn”.
Wrote many famous pieces including “Also Sprach
Zarathustra”.
One of the most famous contemporary composers.
He wrote “The Rite of Spring”.