Charm of Music: Romanticism to Present

  • Rossini

    Rossini

    Gioachino Antonio Rossini was born in 1792 in Pesaro, Italy. He died in 1868 in Paris.
  • Schubert

    Schubert

    Franz Peter Schubert was born in Vienna in 1797. He died in Vienna in 1826.
  • Berlioz

    Berlioz

    Louis Hector Berlioz was born in 1803 in La Cote-Saint-Andre. He died in 1869 in Paris.
  • Period: to

    Early Romantic

  • Chopin

    Chopin

    Frederic Francois Chopin was born in 1810 in Warsaw. He died in 1849 in Paris.
  • Robert Schumann

    Robert Schumann

    Robert Alexander Schumann was born in 1810 in Zwickau, Germany. He died in 1856 in Endenich, Germany.
  • Liszt

    Liszt

    Franz Liszt was born in 1811 in Doborjan, Hungary. He died in 1886 in Bayreuth.
  • Wagner

    Wagner

    Wilhelm Richard Wagner was born in 1813 in Leipzig, Germany. He died in 1883 in Venice.
  • Verdi

    Verdi

    Giuseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi was born in 1813 near Busetto Italy. He died in 1901 in Milan.
  • Napoleon Defeated: Battle of Waterloo

    Napoleon Defeated: Battle of Waterloo

  • Clara Schumann

    Clara Schumann

    Clara Schumann was born in 1819 in Leipzig. She died in 1896 in Frankfurt.
  • Smetana

    Smetana

    Friedrich Smetana was born in 1824 in Litmosyl. He died in 1884 in Prague.
  • Brahms

    Brahms

    Johannes Brahms was born in 1833 in Hamburg, He died in 1867 in Vienna.
  • Tchaikovsky

    Tchaikovsky

    Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky was born in 1840 in Votkinsk. He died in 1893 in St. Petersburg.
  • Grieg

    Grieg

    Edvard Hagerup Grieg was born in 1843 in Bergen, Nowary. He died in 1907 in Bergen, Norway.
  • Period: to

    Late Romantic

  • Puccini

    Puccini

    Giacomo Antonio Domenico Michele Secondo Maria Puccini was born in 1858 in Lucca, Italy. He died in 1923 in Brussels.
  • Mahler

    Mahler

    Gustav Mahler was born in 1860 in Kalischt, Moravia. He died in 1911 in Vienna.
  • Debussy

    Debussy

    Achille-Claude Debussy was born in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France in 1862. He died in 1918 in Paris.
  • Strauss

    Strauss

    Richard Georg Strauss was born in Munich in 1864. He died in 1949 in Garmisch.
  • Typewriter Invented

    Typewriter Invented

  • Schonberg

    Schonberg

    Arnold Schonberg was born in Vienna in 1875. He died in 1951 in Los Angeles, California.
  • Ives

    Ives

    Charles Edward Ives was born in 1874 in Danbury, Connecticut. He died in 1954 in New York.
  • Ravel

    Ravel

    Joseph-Maurice Ravel was born in 1875 in Ciboure, France. He died in 1937 in Paris.
  • Bartok

    Bartok

    Bela Bartok was born in 1881 in Nagyszentmiklos, Hungary. He died in 1945 in New York.
  • Stravinsky

    Stravinsky

    Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky was born in Oranienbaum, Russia. He died in 1971 in New York.
  • Orff

    Orff

    Carl Heinrich Maria Orff was born in 1895 in Munich, Germany. He died in 1982 in Munich, Germany.
  • Gershwin

    Gershwin

    Jacob Gershwin was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1898. He died in Los Angeles in 1937.
  • Kodak introduces the Brownie Camera

    Kodak introduces the Brownie Camera

  • Period: to

    Early 20th Century

  • Copland

    Copland

    Aaron Copland was born in Brooklyn in 1900. He died in North Tarrytown, New York in 1990.
  • First Silent Movie: "The Great Train Robbery"

    First Silent Movie: "The Great Train Robbery"

  • Wright Brothers First Flight

    Wright Brothers First Flight

  • San Francisco Earthquake

    San Francisco Earthquake

  • Picasso Introduces Cubism

    Picasso Introduces Cubism

  • Model-T introduced by Ford

    Model-T introduced by Ford

  • Oreo Cookies Introduced

    Oreo Cookies Introduced

  • Titanic Sinks

    Titanic Sinks

  • Cage

    Cage

    John Cage was born in 1912 in Los Angeles, California. He died in 1992 in New York.
  • World War I Begins

    World War I Begins

  • Bernstein

    Bernstein

    Leonard Bernstein was born in 1918 in Larence, Massachusetts. He died in 1990 in New York.
  • World War I Ends

    World War I Ends

  • Reich

    Reich

    Stephen Reich was born in 1936 in New York. He is still living.
  • Period: to

    Late 20th Century/Early 21 Century

  • First Color TV Broadcast

    First Color TV Broadcast

  • First Playboy Published

    First Playboy Published

  • Fidel Castro Becomes Dictator

    Fidel Castro Becomes Dictator

  • Andy Warhol exhibits his Campbell Soup Cans

    Andy Warhol exhibits his Campbell Soup Cans

  • Higdon

    Higdon

    Jennifer Higdon was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1962. She is still alive.
  • Woodstock Begins

    Woodstock Begins

  • The Greatest Day on Earth: My Birthday

    Aleah McLendon was born!
  • Gay Marriage Legalized

    Gay Marriage Legalized

  • The Day the World Ended (i.e. Trump wins presidential election)

    The Day the World Ended (i.e. Trump wins presidential election)