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Gluck
Gluck was a German composer, from the Bohemian region. He is considered one of the most important opera composers of Classicism of the second half of the 18th century. -
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Joseph Haydin
Joseph Haydn was an Austrian composer. He is one of the greatest representatives of the Classical period, in addition to being known as the "padre de la sinfonia" and the "padre del cuarteto de cuerda" thanks to his important contributions to both genres. -
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Nannerl Mozart
Maria Anna Walburga Ignatia Mozart, also called Nannerl and Marianne, was a famous musician of the 18th century. She was the older sister of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and daughter of Leopold and Anna Maria Mozart. -
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart, better known as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, was a composer, pianist, conductor and professor of the former Archbishopric of Salzburg, master of Classicism, considered one of the most influential and outstanding musicians in history. -
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Maria Theresia von Paradis
Maria Theresia von Paradis was an Austrian pianist and composer. Although she completely lost her sight from the age of three, this did not prevent the production and work of this great pianist, singer and composer from continuing to stand out. -
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Ludwig van Beethoven
Ludwig van Beethoven was a German composer, conductor, pianist and piano teacher. His musical legacy spans, chronologically, from Classicism to the beginnings of Romanticism. -
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Gioachino Rossini
Gioachino Rossini was an Italian composer who gained fame for his 39 operas, although he also wrote many songs, some chamber and piano music pieces, and some sacred music. -
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Franz Schubert
Franz Peter Schubert was an Austrian composer of the principles of musical Romanticism but, at the same time, a continuator of the classical sonata following the model of Ludwig van Beethoven. -
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Hector Beriloz
Louis Hector Berlioz was a French composer and leading figure of romanticism. His best-known work is the Fantastic Symphony, premiered in 1830. -
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Fanny Mendelssohn
Fanny Cäcilie Mendelssohn, also known as Fanny Mendelssohn Bartholdy and by marriage Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel, was an early Romantic composer and pianist. -
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Felix Mendelssohn
Felix Mendelssohn, whose full name was Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, was a German composer, conductor and pianist of romantic music, and brother of the pianist and composer Fanny Mendelssohn. -
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Frédéric Chopin
Frédéric François Chopin was a Polish teacher, composer and virtuoso pianist, considered one of the most important in history and one of the greatest representatives of musical Romanticism. -
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Robert Schumann
Robert Schumann was a German composer, pianist and music critic of the 19th century, considered one of the most important and representative composers of musical Romanticism. Schumann left his law studies, intending to pursue a career as a virtuoso pianist. -
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Franz Liszt
Franz Liszt was an Austro-Hungarian romantic composer, virtuoso pianist, conductor, piano teacher, arranger and Franciscan layman. His Hungarian name was Liszt Ferencz, in modern usage Liszt Ferenc, and from 1859 to 1865 he was officially known as Franz Ritter von Liszt. -
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Richard Wagner
Wilhelm Richard Wagner was a German composer, conductor, poet, essayist, playwright and musical theorist of Romanticism. His operas stand out mainly in which, unlike other composers, he also took on the libretto and the stage design. -
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Giuseppe Verdi
Giuseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi was an Italian romantic opera composer, one of the most important of all time. His work serves as a bridge between the bel canto of Rossini, Donizetti and Bellini, and the current of verismo and Puccini. -
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Clara Schumann
Clara Wieck, known as Clara Schumann, was a German pianist, composer and piano teacher. She was one of the great European concert artists of the 19th century and her career was key in the dissemination of the compositions of her husband, Robert Schumann. -
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Bedřich Smetana
Bedřich Smetana; He was a composer born in Bohemia, a region that during the musician's lifetime was part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. He pioneered the development of a musical style that became closely linked to Czech nationalism. For this reason, he is recognized in his country as the father of Czech music. -
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Johannes Brahms
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. -
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Musorgski
Modest Musorgsky was a Russian composer, member of the group "The Five". Among his works, the operas Boris Godunov and Jovánschina, the symphonic poem A Night on Monte Pelado and the piano suite Pictures at an Exhibition stand out. Mussorgsky was an innovator of Russian music in the Romantic period. -
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Chaikovski
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 Swan Lake ballets. -
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Dvorak
Antonín Leopold Dvořák was a post-romantic composer from Bohemia, one of the first Czech composers to achieve worldwide recognition and one of the great composers of the second half of the 19th century. -
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Grieg
Edvard Hagerup Grieg, commonly cited as Edvard Grieg, was a Norwegian composer and pianist, considered one of the main representatives of late Romanticism. -
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Rimski Korsakov
Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov was a Russian composer, conductor and pedagogue, member of the group of composers known as The Five. -
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Giacomo Puccini
Giacomo Antonio Domenico Michele Secondo Maria Puccini, better known simply as Giacomo Puccini, was an Italian opera composer, considered among the greatest, of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He was a visionary, creator of the music concepts that would govern cinema during the 20th century. -
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Hugo Wolf
Hugo Filipp Jakob Wolf was an Austrian composer of Slovenian origin, who lived during the final years of the 19th century in Vienna. An enthusiastic follower of Richard Wagner, he became involved in the disputes existing in Vienna at that time between Wagnerians and Formalists or Brahmsians. -
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Gustav Mahler
Gustav Mahler was an Austro-Bohemian composer and conductor whose works are considered, along with those of Richard Strauss, the most important of post-Romanticism. In the first decade of the 20th century, Gustav Mahler was one of the most important orchestra and opera conductors of his time. -
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Schönberg
Arnold Schönberg was an Austrian composer, music theorist and painter of Jewish origin. Since he immigrated to the United States in 1934, he adopted the name Arnold Schoenberg, and that is how he often appears in English-language publications around the world. -
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Ravel
Joseph Maurice Ravel was a 20th century French composer. His work, frequently linked to Impressionism, also shows a bold neoclassical style and, at times, features of Expressionism, and is the fruit of a complex heritage and musical discoveries that revolutionized music for piano and orchestra. -
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Manuel de Falla
Manuel de Falla y Matheu 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. the times. -
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Bartok
Béla Viktor János Bartók, known as Béla Bartók, was a Hungarian musician who stood out as a composer, pianist and researcher of Eastern European folk music. He is considered one of the greatest composers of the 20th century. -
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Kódaly
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 harmonies of the 20th century, shared with Béla Bartók. -
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Joaquín Turina
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. -
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Ígor Stravinsky
Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky was a Russian composer and conductor and one of the most important and transcendental musicians of the 20th century. His long life allowed him to discover a wide variety of musical trends. -
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Heitor Villa-Lobos
Heitor Villa-Lobos was a Brazilian conductor and composer. His music was influenced by both Brazilian folk music and European classical music. He received some musical instruction from his father. -
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Oliver Messiaen
Olivier Messiaen was a French composer, organist, pedagogue and ornithologist, one of the most outstanding musicians of the entire century. -
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Pierre Shaeffer
Pierre Henri Marie Schaeffer was a French composer. He is considered the creator of concrete music. He is the author of the book titled Treatise on Musical Objects, where he exposes all of his theory on this type of music. He composed different works, all of them based on the technique of concrete music. -
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John Cage
John Milton Cage Jr., artistically John Cage, was an American composer, music theorist, artist and philosopher. A pioneer of aleatoric music, electronic music and the non-standard use of musical instruments, Cage was one of the figures principals of the postwar avant garde. -
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Pierre Henry
Pierre Henry was a French musician, considered the creator, along with Pierre Schaeffer, of the so-called concrete music and one of the godfathers of electroacoustic music. -
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Philipp Glass
Philip Glass is an American minimalist classical music composer. He studied at the Juilliard School in New York. His international recognition increased since the appearance of his opera Einstein on the Beach.