Ongoing Timeline

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    Baroque Era

  • Monteverdi's L'Orfeo

  • First Public Concerts in England

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    Johann Sebatian Bach

  • Vivaldi's L'Estro Armonico

    The desired style in the eighteenth century is clearly depicted in Vivaldi's music. His music was very popular in its day and created many modern trends. For example, the sections throughout this piece are very clearly unique. Which introduced a greater variety throughout one piece.

  • Bach's Well Tempered Clavier volume I

    These are some of Bach's best keyboard works from different periods of his life. These pieces not only had a performance aspect, but an educational one. These preludes and fugues were used as etudes. They also illustrate different types of keyboard performance.

  • Rameau's Traite de l'harmonie

    This treatise outlines the basis of harmony and the laws of acoustic. His writing influences music theory for two hundred years after it was published.
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    Franz Joseph Haydn

  • Handel's Messiah

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    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  • Viennese Classical Period

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    Le Chevailer de Saint- George director of Concerts des Amateurs

    This group of musicians premiered many contemporary or unpublished works. These amateurs considered themselves music lovers instead of inexperienced.

  • Mozart's Don Giovanni

  • Haydn Surprise Symphony premiere

  • Paganini 24 Caprices Composition

  • Beethoven Symphony No.5 Premiere date

  • Schubert Erlkönig

  • Berlioz Symphonie fantastique

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    Frederic Chopin Mazurkas Op.7

  • Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel Das Jahr

  • Louis Moreau Gottschalk Souvenir de Porto Rico

  • Mussorgsky Pictures at an Exhibition

  • Bizet Carmen (premiere)

  • Wagner Der Ring des Nibelungen (premiere of complete cycle)

  • Brahms' Symphony No.4 (premiere)

  • Mahler Symphony No.1 (premiere)

  • Dvorak Symphony No. 9 "From the New World"

  • Scott Joplin's Maple Leaf Rag (published)

  • Jean Sibelius' Finlandia (premiere)

  • Claude Debussy's Voiles” from Préludes Book 1

  • Arnold Schönberg's Pierrot Lunaire

  • Igor Stravinsky's Le sacre du Printemps (premiere)

  • Arnold Schönberg's Piano Suite, Op.25

  • Louis Armstrong's "Hotter Than That"

  • George and Ira Gershwin's "I Got Rhythm" (published)

  • Shostakovich Symphony No.5 premiere

  • Prokofiev Alexander Nevsky (film)

  • Duke Ellington's Cottontail

  • Olivier Messiaen's Quatuor pour le fine du temps

  • Bela Bartók's Concerto for Orchestra

  • Copland Appalachian Spring

  • John Cage's 4’33’’

  • Edward Varese Poeme Electronique

  • Miles Davis Kind of Blue

  • George Crumb's Black Angels

  • John Adams' Short Ride in a Fast Machine