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Gregorian chant was in use around this year. It was a polyphonic religious musical form on wich multiple voices would sing about religious topics. -
Mr. D'Arezzo was an ancient monk who named the musical notes as of how we, occidentals, know it nowadays. The names of the notes were based off of a hymn he composed. -
She was a german saint, as well as a composer, writer, philosopher and more during the Middle Ages. -
Ancient trouvadour and composer in the Middle Ages. -
He was one of the first composers of polyphonic organum. Date of death: 1201 -
Perotin was a french composer in the Middle Ages between 1160 and 1230. Considered the best composer of Notre Dame School, in France. -
European music in the Middle Ages, between the XII and XIV
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He was Catilla's king for 32 years.(1252-1284). He was born in Toledo and died in Sevilla (1284). -
Guillaume de Machaut was a medieval french composer. Mayor representant of the Ars Nova. -
European music after the year 1310
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Francesco Landini was a medieval italian composer. (The most popular composer of the XIV century -
Inventor of the printing press in 1455. His birth date is unknown, but it's assumed it was around 1420. -
Juan del Encina was a theatrical music, poet and author in Spain in the 15th century. -
Mr. Lutero was the mayor representant and developer of the Protestant Reformation in the Middle Ages. This reformation resulted on a split between protestants and catholics. -
Cristóbal de Morales was a spanish catholic priest and a big polyphonic composer next to Tomas Luis de Victoria and Francisco Guerrero -
Renaissance spanish composer. -
He was a popular renaissance italian composer. Considered one of the most influencing composer of his century -
Andrea Gabrieli was an italian composer and organist. -
She was an ancient composer in the late Renaissance. -
Spanish catholic composer and priest.He has a brilliant and innovating musical style wich was popular during the Barroque -
He was an italian organist and composer in the 16th century -
Carlo Gesualdo was an ancient italian composer as well as one of the most remarkable figures of the Renaissance. -
Claudio Monteverdi was an italian composer, priest and singer. -
Renaissance italian composer. Most known composer of the composition Roman School of the XVI century. -
This is the aproximate date on wich we consider The Baroque's beginnings. -
Giacomo Carissimi was a really important composer from italy in The Baroque. One of the main representatives of the Roman School. -
Barbara Strozzi was an ancient italian composer of her own secular music during The Baroque. -
Stradivarious was an ancient lutier, who is know the name of the (apparently) best violins ever made. -
Henry Purcel was an english Baroque composer.For a lot, considered on of the best figures in music. -
Antonio Vivaldi was a famous violinist and composer during The Barroque. His most world wide piece was "Four Seasons". -
Mr.Telemann was a german composer from The Baroque. Considered the most profilic artist in the history of music. -
Johann Sebastian Bach was a remarkable and popular composer and orquesta director during The Baroque. -
Händel was a german composer in The Baroque, considered one of the most important musical figures of that period. -
Gluck was a german composer in the Modern Age. -
He was a (guess) composer (wow, unbelievable) who's considered the "father of synphonies". -
Maria Anna Walburga Ignatia Mozart (Salzburg, July 30, 1751 - Ibid., October 29, 1829), also called Nannerl1 and Marianne, was a famous musician of the 18th century. She was the older sister of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. -
Wolfgan Amadeus Mozart was an austrian genius composer, considered by most of humankind as one the biggest composers ever. His genius outtook every other composer of the era. He was able to write compositions with clean and neat music sheets, no drafts, no sketches, just pure magic. -
Maria Theresia Von Paradis was an austrian composer and pianist. She was blind for 3 years straight, but it wasn't an obstacle for her music to keep ongoing. In fact, the image of a blind woman playing an instrument and composing, encouraged and inspired every other blind person in the world. She focused on blind people musical education, too. -
Mr. Beethoven was a really talented and brilliant musician, who is considered as one of the best musicians ever. His compositions were full of expression and emotion and they've been on constant performance even after his death. Unfortunately, beethoven got an ear loss on his late days, wich caused him develop some kind of depression. -
Gioachino Rossinia (Pesaro, Papal States, February 29, 1792-Passy, Paris, Second French Empire, November 13, 1868) was an Italian composer who gained fame for his 39 operas, although he also wrote many songs, some pieces of chamber and piano music and some sacred music. -
Mr. Schubert was an asutrian composer, whoose music was emotional and expressive. Full of feelings, a characteristic of Romantic music. This man was a romantic composer, indeed. -
This man was known as an orchestral innovator. Also regonized by his vivid programatic writing and his variuos types of musical forms. -
Felix Mendelssohn was a german composer who had a distinguisble talent from an early young age. This man, also, revived Johann Sebastian Bach's compositions, for he was an already forgotten composer. -
Frédéric François Chopina was a French-Polish teacher, composer and virtuoso pianist, considered one of the most important in history and one of the greatest representatives of musical Romanticism. -
Schumann was a German composer and pianist, wich suffered from great and deep drpression. His attempts to suicide weren't very successfull and his life was not really a good one, in the overall. But, although his luck was not the best, he was still capapble of creating wonderful beautiful pieces of work. His compositions are really axpressive. -
Franz Listz was a hungrian composer and pianist who performed his pieces in a really charismatic and happy way. He was a pioneer of the synphonic poem. -
Richard Wagner was the german composer who revolutioned the opera, with the creation of music drama (a type of opera combining music, theatre and poetry). He was the first composer to use the leitmotif, wich is used as a subliminal way to tell the audience something or someone assosiated with that melody is about to appear. -
This italian composer is mostly known for his dramatic operas touching on betrayal, social justice and love. He was born in Busseto and died in Milán. -
Clara Wieck, known as Clara Schumann, was a German pianist, composer and piano teacher. -
Mr. Smeata was a bohemian composer who was part of the
Austro-Hungarian Empire, ans he's known by the father of chequian music. -
Johannes Brahms was a German composer, pianist and conductor of Romanticism, considered the most classical of the composers of that period. Born in Hamburg to a Lutheran family, he spent much of his professional life in Vienna. -
Modest Mussorgsky was a Russian composer, member of the group "The Five". Among his works, the operas Boris Godunov (1872) and Jovánschina (1886) stand out, the symphonic poem A Night on Monte Pelado (1867) and the piano suite Pictures at an Exhibition (1874). -
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky was a Russian composer of the Romantic period.He is the author of some of the most famous works of classical music in the current repertoire, such as the ballets Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty and The Nutcracker, etc. -
Brahms was jelaous of him for his brilliant and uick ideas for beautiful choruses. Mr. Dvorak was a great representation of the postromantic chequian music. -
Edvard Hagerup Grieg, commonly cited as Edvard Grieg, was a Norwegian composer and pianist, considered one of the main representatives of late Romanticism. -
Puccini Puccini was an Italian opera composer who is considered by some one of the greatest in the late Roanticisim. It's believed that he created some of the musical concepts that were used later on the 20th century. -
Hugo Wolf was an austrian composer from the late Romanticisim. In 1875, he got into the austrian conservatory and met Wagner. They both became friends. -
Mr. Mahler was an austrian orquestra director of the late Romanticism. His works went from Viena's Opera Courts to New York's Metropolitan Opera. His most remarkable work was, above all, his 8th sinphony. -
Achille Claude Debussya was a French composer, one of the most influential of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Some authors consider him the first impressionist composer, although he categorically rejected the term. -
Sibelius is a romantic-modern composer, since his work spans between those periods. He seem to be considered the best composer of his country. He was born in Finland. -
Arnold Schönberg was an Austrian composer, music theorist and painter of Jewish origin. Since he emigrated to the United States in 1934, he adopted the name Arnold Schoenberg, and this is how he usually appears in English-language publications and around the world. -
Mr. Ravel (Maurice Ravel) was a french composer from the 20th century. His works resemble expressionism and impressionism. He managed to create perfection and expression at the same time. -
Manuel de Falla y Matheu (Cádiz, November 23, 1876-Alta Gracia, Argentina, November 14, 1946) was a Spanish composer of musical nationalism, one of the most important of the first half of the 20th century, along with Isaac Albéniz. , Enrique Granados, Joaquín Turina and Joaquín Rodrigo, and one of the most important Spanish composers of all time. -
Mr. Bartok is considered one of the greates composers of the last century. He composed and played the piano and was one of the major founders of etnomusicology.
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Stravinsky was a russian composer, musician and orchestral director. Considered in if the most relevant musicians of the 20th century -
Joaquín Turina Pérez was a Spanish composer and musicologist, representative of nationalism in the first half of the 20th century. Manuel de Falla, Isaac Albéniz and he composed the most important works of Impressionism in Spain. His most important works are Fantastic Dances and The Rocío Procession. -
Zoltán Kodály was a prominent Hungarian musician whose musical style first went through a post-Viennese-Romantic phase and then evolved into its main characteristic: the mixture of folklore and complex 20th-century harmonies, shared with Béla Bartók. -
Rimski Korsakov was an orchestra composer of the 20th century. He is knwon worldwide by his amazing and beautiful orchestral pieces. He was part of one music group known as:"The Five" -
Heitor Villa-Lobos was a southafrican composer known for his brasilian folk compositions. And aslo, he worked on improving musical education in that country. -
Gershwin was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1898. Knwon for his contributions to classical music and jazz. -
Messiaen was a composer of the 20th century. His love for nature and God combined, influenced him to become a better person and artist. -
Pierre Henri Marie Schaeffer (August 14, 1910 – August 19, 1995) was a French composer. He is considered the creator of concrete music. -
This man was oustanding. he didn't use regular instruments for the time. He was a random electronic music pioneer. -
Pierre Henry was a french composer of the 20th century, considered one of the creators of "concrete music" -
Philipp Glass was a pianist an composer from the 20th century. He is known for his minimalistic compositions. -
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