Music History Timeline

By AAlim
  • 800 BCE

    Greek civilization

  • Apr 2, 742

    Charlemagne April 2, 742-January 28, 814

    He was the first Western European emperor since the fall of the Western Roman Empire, and founded the Carolingian Empire, and showed interest In the church and ordered his agents and representatives to listen to the performances.
  • 801

    Musica enchiriadis 801-901

    This showed how the consonant of intervals should be used to compose or improvise an organum.
  • 1026

    Guido of Arezzo's Micrologous

    Guido of Arezzo's Micrologous was an inventor of the Micrologous which is a treatise outlining teaching and singing Gregorian Chant and that would have a discussion about polyphonic music.
  • 1098

    Hildegard of Bingen 1098-1179

  • 1100

    Troubadour 1100-1300

  • 1160

    Notre Dame School 1160-1260

  • 1260

    Franco of Cologne Ars cantus mensurabilis

    Franco was one of the influential theorists in the late Medieval era and first to transform the musical notation permanently using the Ars cantus mensurabilis.
  • 1300

    Guillaume de Machaut 1300-1377

  • 1300

    Renaissance 1300-1600

  • 1320

    Ars nova Treatise

    It was a period of flowering of music in the 14th century.
  • 1335

    Francesco Landini 1335-September 2, 1397

  • 1401

    Josquin's Ave Maria Virgo Serena Motet

  • 1439

    Gutenburg printing press

  • 1527

    Martin Luther's ein feste bürg 1527-1529

  • 1538

    Arcadelt II bianco e dolce cigno

  • 1567

    Palestrina Pope Marcellus Mass

  • 1580

    Concerto delle Donne 1580-1597

    It was founded in the late Renaissance court of Ferrera, Italy.

  • Musica Transalpina

    It contains the madrigals published in England.

  • Sonata pien' e forte

    This work was written by an Italian composer and organist named Giovanni Gabrieli. This was most likely played as part of a Catholic service at St Mark's. It was in the form of a Venetian polychoral style from the unique architecture of Saint Mark's Basilica. In addition, it was written for 8 instruments divided into 2 groups of 4 and placed in opposing galleries in the cathedral.

  • Baroque era 1600-1750

  • Monteverdi's L' Orfeo

  • First Public Concerts in England

  • JS Bach 1685-1750

  • Handel 1685-1759

  • Purcell's Dido and Aeneas

  • Antonio Vivaldi's L' Estro Armonico

  • Brandenburg Concertos

  • Rameau's Traite' de l harmonie'

  • The Well-Tempered Clavier volume 1

  • Pre Classical Period 1730-1770

  • Viennese Classical Period 1730-1800

  • Franz Josef Haydn 1732-1809

  • Handel's Messiah

  • WA Mozart 1756-1791

  • Beethoven 1770-1827

  • Chevalier de Saint-Georges as director of Concerts de Amateurs 1773-1775

  • Haydn's op.33 String Quartets

  • Mozart's Piano Concerto No.23

  • Mozart's Don Giovanni

  • Haydn's London Symphonies (between 1791 and 1795)

  • Schubert 1797-1828

  • Fanny-Mendelssohn Hansel Das Jahr 1805-1847

  • Niccolo Paganini's 24 Caprices for Unaccompanied Violin

  • Symphony No. 5 in C minor

  • Frederic Chopin 1810-1849

  • Erlkönig

  • Rossini's Il Barbiere di Siviglia

  • Symphony No. 9

  • Symphonie fantastique

  • Mazurkas Op. 7

  • Robert Schumann Carnaval 1834-1835

  • Clara Wieck Schumann "Liebst du um Schönheit"

  • Berlioz Treatise on Instrumentation

  • Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy - Violin Concerto in E minor, Op. 64

  • Verdi's La traviata

  • Louis Moreau Gottschalks Souvenir de Porto Rico

  • Wagner's Tristan and Isolde

  • Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov

  • Bizet's Carmen

  • Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen

  • Brahms Symphony No. 4

  • Mahler's Symphony No. 1

  • Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker

  • Dvorak's Symphony No. 9 "New World"

  • Debussy's Prélude a' l' aprés midi d' un faune

  • Maple Leaf Rag

  • Jean Sibelius Finlandia

  • Puccini's Madama Butterfly

  • Schönberg's Pierrot Lunaire

  • Stravinsky's Le sacre du printemps

  • Schönerg's Piano Suite, Op. 25

  • George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue

  • Henry Cowell

  • Louis Armstrong's "Hotter Than That"

  • Glass Koyaanisqasti

  • Shostakovich Symphony No. 5

  • Prokofiev Alexander Nevsky

  • 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

    George Crumb's Black Angels is like an electric string quartet and is based on Vietnam War. He imitated sound effects of the war using string instruments, representing what it is like to be in a war zone.

  • Del Tredici Final Alice

  • John Adams' Dr Atomic