Timeline: JH music timeline | Timetoast

1517

Luther's 95 theses
Period: 1517 to 1648

Protestant Reformation (1517-1648)

invention of chorale by Luther
Period: 1653 to 1713

A Corelli (1653-1713)

Roman style concerto
Period: 1658 to 1709

G Torelli (1658-1709)

North Italian style concerto
Period: 1678 to 1741

A Vivaldi (1678-1741)

ritornello form, VFE
Period: 1685 to 1750

JS Bach (1685-1750)

Concerto: blur R/S distinction
Cantatas
in Ro, due to mendy, became German symbol for nationalism (historicism)
Period: 1685 to 1759

GF Handel (1685-1759)

X competition from opera, popularised english oratorio
Period: 1700 to 1775

GB Sammartini (1700-75)

origin of symphony
Period: 1714 to 1787

CW Gluck (1714-1787)

Gluckian opera reform: continuity btw operatic numbers; introduce ballet into opera
Period: 1717 to 1757

J Stamitz (1717-57)

Mannheim orchestra (symphonic style)
Period: 1732 to 1809

J Haydn (1732-1809)

father of the string qt, symphony
Period: 1756 to 1791

WA Mozart (1756-1791)
Period: 1760 to 1840

1st industrial revolution (approx 1760 - approx 1840)
Period: 1770 to 1827

LV Beethoven (1770-1827)
Period: 1789 to 1799

French Revolution (1789-99)
Period: 1797 to 1828

F Schubert (1797-1828)
Period: 1803 to 1869

H Berlioz (1803-1869)
Period: 1803 to 1815

Napoleonic Wars (1803-15)
Period: 1813 to 1883

R Wagner (1813-1883)
1825

Beethoven 9th symphony
Period: 1833 to 1897

J Brahms (1833-1897)
Period: 1841 to 1904

A Dvorak (1841-1904)
1848

Spring Revolution
Period: 1870 to 1914

2nd industrial revolution / technological revolution
Period: 1906 to 1975

D Shostakovich (1906-1975)
Period: 1914 to 1918

World War 1 (1914-18)
Period: 1929 to 1939

American Great Depression (1929-39)
Period: 1939 to 1945

World War 2 (1939-45)