Composer Timeline
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that century, "space bar" to scroll through all composers:
11th-14th Centuries
- Hildegard von Bingen (1098-1179)
- Perotin (c.1160-1240)
- Philippe le Chancelier (c.1165-1236)
- Walter von der Vogelweide (1170-1230)
- Philippe de Vitry (1291-1361)
- Guilliaume Machaut (1300-1377)
- Francesco Landini (1325-1397)
- Johannes Ciconia (1335-1411)
- John Dunstable (c.1380-1453)
15th Century
- Gilles Binchois (1400-1460)
- Guillaume Dufay (1400-1474)
- Johannes Ockeghem (1410-1497)
- Antoine Busnoys (c.1430-1492)
- Josquin Des Prez (c.1440-1521)
- Alexander Agricola (c.1446-1506)
- Jacob Obrecht (1450-1505)
- Heinrich Isaac (1450-1517)
- Johannes Cornago (c.1455-1485)
- Pierre de la Rue (1460-1518)
- Antoine Brumel (1460-1520)
- Francisco de Penalosa (1470-1528)
- William Cornysh (?-1523)
- Clement Jannequin (1485-1558)
- Robert Carver (c.1485-c.1568)
- Ludwig Senfl (1490-1537)
- John Taverner (1490-1545)
- Nicholas Gombert (1495-1560)
16th Century
- Cristobal de Morales (1500-1553)
- Jacques Arcadelt (1505-1568)
- Christopher Tye (1505-1572)
- Thomas Tallis (1505-1585)
- Baliny Bakfark (1507-1576)
- Clemens non Papa (1510-1555)
- Antonio de Cabezon (1510-1566)
- Andrea Gabrieli (1510-1586)
- John Sheppard (1515-1559)
- Cipriano de Rore (1516-1565)
- Giovanni Perluigi Palestrina (1525-1594)
- William Mundy (1529-1591)
- Claude Le Jeune (1530-1600)
- Roland de Lassus (1532-1594)
- Hernando de Cabezon (1541-1602)
- William Byrd (1543-1623)
- Tomas Luis de Victoria (1548-1611)
- Eustache du Caurroy (1549-1609)
- Giovanni Gabrieli (1554-1612)
- Alonso Lobo (1555-1617)
- Thomas Morley (1557-1603)
- Don Carlo Gesauldo (1560-1613)
- Peter Philips (1560-1628)
- John Bull (1562-1628)
- Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck (1562-1621)
- John Dowland (1563-1626)
- Jehan Titelouze (1563-1633)
- Alessandro Piccinini (1566-1638)
- Frei Manuel Cardoso (1566-1650)
- Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643)
- Michael Praetorius (1571-1621)
- Thomas Weelkes (1575-1623)
- Gregorio Allegri (1582-1652)
- Orlando Gibbons (1583-1625)
- Girolamo Frescobaldi (1583-1643)
- Heinrich Schutz (1585-1672)
- Johann Schein (1586-1630)
- Samuel Scheidt (1587-1654)
- John Jenkins (1592-1678)
- Biagio Marini (c.1595-1665)
17th Century
- William Lawes (1602-1645)
- Jacques de Chambonnieres (1602-1672)
- Giacomo Carissimi (1605-1674)
- Christopher Simpson (1615-1669)
- Johann Froberger (1616-1667)
- Matthias Weckmann (1616-1674)
- Maurizio Cazzati (c.1620-1677)
- Johann Schmelzer (1623-1680)
- Carlo Legrenzi (1626-1690)
- Matthew Locke (1630-1677)
- Jean-Baptiste Lully (1632-1687)
- Jean-Henri d'Anglebert (1635-1691)
- Diderik Buxtehude (1637-1707)
- Sainte-Colombe (1640-1690)
- Marc-Antoine Charpentier (1644-1704)
- Alessandro Stradella (1644-1682)
- Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber (1644-1704)
- John Blow (1648-1708)
- Petronio Fransceschini (c.1650-1680)
- Johann Jacob Walther (1650-1717)
- Georg Muffat (1653-1704)
- Johann Pachelbel (1653-1706)
- Archangelo Corelli (1653-1713)
- Marin Marais (1656-1728)
- Giuseppe Torelli (1658-1709)
- Henry Purcell (1659-1695)
- Johann Joseph Fux (1660-1741)
- Alessandro Scarlatti (1660-1725)
- Francois Couperin (1668-1733)
- Tomaso Albinoni (1671-1751)
- Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)
- Georg Philippe Telemann (1681-1767)
- Johann David Heinichen (1683-1729)
- Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683-1764)
- Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
- Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757)
- Georg Friedrich Handel (1685-1759)
- Joseph Bodin de Boismortier (1689-1755)
- Giuseppe Tartini (1692-1770)
- Johan Helmich Roman (1695-1758)
- Pietro-Antonio Locatelli (1695-1764)
- Johann Joachim Quantz (1697-1773)
18th Century
- Giovanni Battista Sammartini (1701-1775)
- Baldassare Galuppi (1706-1785)
- Pietro Domenico Paradisi (1707-1791)
- Charles Avison (1709-1770)
- Michel Corrette (1709-1795)
- Wilhelm Friedemann Bach (1710-1784)
- Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714-1788)
- Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714-1787)
- J.W.A. Stamitz (1717-1757)
- Carl Friedrich Abel (1723-1787)
- Padre Antonio Soler (1729-1783)
- Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
- Johann Christian Bach (1735-1782)
- Johann Georg Albrectsberger (1736-1809)
- Luigi Boccherini (1743-1805)
- Christian Neefe (1748-1809)
- Muzio Clementi (1752-1832)
- Wolfgang A. Mozart (1756-1791)
- Francois Devienne (1759-1803)
- Jan Ladislav Dussek (1760-1812)
- Franz Sussmayr (1766-1803)
- Ludwig v. Beethoven (1770-1827)
- Anton Reicha (1770-1838)
- E.T.A. Hoffman (1776-1822)
- Johann Hummel (1778-1837)
- Mauro Giuliani (1781-1829)
- John Field (1782-1837)
- Niccolo Paganini (1782-1840)
- Ludwig Spohr (1784-1859)
- Daniel Kuhlau (1786-1832)
- Carl Maria von Weber (1786-1826)
- Giacomo Meyerbeer (1791-1864)
- Jan Hugo Vorisek (1791-1825)
- Carl Czerny (1791-1857)
- Gioachino Antonio Rossini (1792-1868)
- Franz Adolf Berwald (1796-1868)
- Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
- Gaetano Donizetti (1797-1848)
19th Century
- Vincenzo Bellini (1801-1835)
- Hector Berlioz (1803-1869)
- Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)
- Frederic Chopin (1810-1849)
- Robert Schumann (1810-1856)
- Franz Liszt (1811-1886)
- Ambroise Thomas (1811-1896)
- Richard Wagner (1813-1883)
- Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901)
- Charles Gounod (1818-1896)
- Jacques Offenbach (1819-1880)
- Cesar Franck (1822-1890)
- Bedrich Smetana (1824-1884)
- Anton Bruckner (1824-1896)
- Johann Strauss II (1825-1899)
- Alexander Borodin (1833-1887)
- Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
- Camille Saint-Saens (1835-1921)
- Georges Bizet (1838-1875)
- Modest Mussorgsky (1839-1881)
- Peter Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)
- Antonin Dvorak (1841-1904)
- Edvard Grieg (1843-1907)
- Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908)
- Gabriel Faure (1845-1924)
- Edward Elgar (1857-1934)
- Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924)
- Gustav Mahler (1860-1911)
- Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
- Friederick Delius (1862-1934)
- Richard Strauss (1864-1949)
- Carl Nielsen (1865-1931)
- Jean Sibelius (1865-1957)
- Alexander Skryabin (1872-1915)
- Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)
- Sergei Rachmaninov (1873-1943)
- Gustav Holst (1874-1934)
- Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951)
- Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)
- Ottorino Respighi (1879-1936)
- Bela Bartok (1881-1945)
- Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971)
- Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953)
- George Gershwin (1898-1937)
- Francis Poulenc (1899-1963)
20th Century
- Aaron Copland (1900-1990)
- Joachin Rodrigo (1901-)
- Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975)
- Samuel Barber (1910-1981)
- Benjamin Britten (1913-1976)
- Dominck Argento (1927- )
This Timeline was orginally created by Dave Lampson and posted to
various music newsgroups (lampson@wco.com). This edition of the
Timeline has been edited slightly and is always open for additional
input.
5 June 1995 by Tim Cordell (Cordell@vax.edinboro.edu)