Charm of Music Timeline Final

Early Romantic Era

Period: Mar 30, 1790 to Mar 31, 1819

Gioacchino Rossini

Mar 30, 1792

(1792-1868)
Italian

Gaetano Donizetti

Mar 30, 1792

(1792-1848)
Italian

Franz Schubert

Jan 1, 1797

(1797-1828)
Austria

Vincenzo Bellini

Mar 30, 1801

(1801-1835)
Italian

Hector Berlioz

Jan 1, 1803

(1803-1869)
French

Robert Schuman

Jan 1, 1810

(1810-1856)
German

Frederic Chopin

Jan 1, 1810

(1810-1849)
Polish

Franz Liszt

Mar 30, 1811

(1811-1886)
Hungary

Richard Wagner

Jan 1, 1813

(1813-1883) German

Giuseppe Verdi

Mar 30, 1813

(1813-1901)
Italian

Clara Wieck Schuman

Jan 1, 1819

(1819-1896)
German

Romantic Era

Period: Jan 1, 1820 to Jan 1, 1910

1820-1910

Bedrich Smetana

Mar 30, 1824

(1824-1884)
Czech

Johannes Brahms

Mar 30, 1833

(1833-1897)
German

Georges Bizet

Mar 30, 1838

(1838-1875)
French

Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Jan 1, 1840

(1840-1893) Russian

Edvard Grieg

Mar 30, 1843

(1843-1907)
Scandanavian

Ruggiero Leoncavallo

Jan 1, 1857

(1857-1919)
Italian

Giacomo Puccini

Jan 1, 1858

(1858-1923)
Italian

Gustav Mahler

Jan 1, 1860

(1860-1911) Austra/Bohemia

Claude Debussy

Jan 1, 1862

(1862-1918)
French

Richard Strauss

Jan 1, 1864

(1864-1949) German

Erik Satie

Jan 1, 1866

(1866-1925)
French

Serge Diaghilev

Jan 1, 1872

(1872-1929) Russia

Arnold Schoenbung

Jan 1, 1874

(1874-1951)
Vienna

Charles Ives

Jan 1, 1874

1874-1954
American

Maurice Ravel

Jan 1, 1875

(1875-1937)
French

Bela Bartok

Jan 1, 1881

1881-1945 Hungarian/ Romanian

Igor Stravinsky

Jan 1, 1882

(1882-1971)
French

Anton Webern

Jan 1, 1883

(1883- 1945) Vienna

Alban Berg

Jan 1, 1885

(1885-1935) Vienna

George Gershwin

Jan 1, 1888

(1888-1937)
American

Carl Orff

Jan 1, 1895

(1895-1982)
German

Aaron Copland

Jan 1, 1900

(1900-1990)
America

20th Century

Period: Jan 1, 1900 to Jan 1, 1999

Milton Babbit

Jan 1, 1911

1916-2011 American

John Cage

Jan 1, 1912

1912-1992
American

Leonard Bernstein

Jan 1, 1918

1918-1990
American

Steve Reich

Jan 1, 1936

1936-Current
American

John Corigliano

Jan 1, 1938

1938-Current
American

Jennifer Higdon

Jan 1, 1962

1962- Current
American

21st Century

Period: Jan 1, 2000 to Jan 1, 2099