Timeline #4: Romantic Era

By graciemlg
  • Luigi Cherubini (1760-1842)

    Luigi Cherubini (1760-1842)

  • Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)

    Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)

  • Niccolò Paganini (1782-1840)

    Niccolò Paganini (1782-1840)

  • Carl Maria von Weber (1786-1826)

    Carl Maria von Weber (1786-1826)

  • Giacomo Meyerbeer (1791-1864)

    Giacomo Meyerbeer (1791-1864)

  • Gioacchino Rossini (1792-1868)

    Gioacchino Rossini (1792-1868)

  • Franz Schubert (1797-1828)

    Franz Schubert (1797-1828)

  • Gaetano Donizetti (1797-1848)

    Gaetano Donizetti (1797-1848)

  • Vincenzo Bellini (1801-1835)

    Vincenzo Bellini (1801-1835)

  • Hector Berlioz (1803-1869)

    Hector Berlioz (1803-1869)

  • Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka (1804-1857)

    Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka (1804-1857)

  • Felix Mendelssohn (1805-1847)

    Felix Mendelssohn (1805-1847)

  • Robert Schumann (1810-1856)

    Robert Schumann (1810-1856)

  • Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849)

    Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849)

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    Genres

    symphonic poem, program music, lieder, character pieces, choral music (part songs, oratorio, mass, requiem mass), chamber music, opera (grand opera, opéra comique, lyric opera, opérette, bel canto, verismo), music dramas, ballet, orchestral lieder, maximalism
  • Franz Liszt (1811-1886)

    Franz Liszt (1811-1886)

  • Period: to

    War of 1812

  • Richard Wagner (1813-1883)

    Richard Wagner (1813-1883)

  • Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901)

    Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901)

  • Clara Schumann Wieck (1819-1896)

    Clara Schumann Wieck (1819-1896)

  • Jacques Offenbach (1819-1880)

    Jacques Offenbach (1819-1880)

  • Bedrich Smetana (1824-1884)

    Bedrich Smetana (1824-1884)

  • Stephen Foster (1826-1864)

    Stephen Foster (1826-1864)

  • Louis Moreau Gottschalk (1829-1869)

    Louis Moreau Gottschalk (1829-1869)

  • Period: to

    Decline of the Ottoman Empire

  • Alexander Borodin (1833-1887)

    Alexander Borodin (1833-1887)

  • Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)

    Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)

  • César Cui (1835-1918)

    César Cui (1835-1918)

  • Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921)

    Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921)

  • Mily Balakirev (1837-1910)

    Mily Balakirev (1837-1910)

  • Telegraphy is patented

  • Georges Bizet (1838-1875)

    Georges Bizet (1838-1875)

  • Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)

    Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)

  • Antonin Dvorak (1841-1904)

    Antonin Dvorak (1841-1904)

  • Anesthesia is used for the first time!

  • Edvard Grieg (1843-1907)

    Edvard Grieg (1843-1907)

  • Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908)

    Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908)

  • Period: to

    Mexican-American War

  • Leoš Janáček (1854-1928)

    Leoš Janáček (1854-1928)

  • Cocaine is isolated by Friedrich Gaedcke

  • Edward Elgar (1857-1934)

    Edward Elgar (1857-1934)

  • Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924)

    Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924)

  • Phonautograph is invented

  • Isaac Albéniz (1860-1909)

    Isaac Albéniz (1860-1909)

  • Ignacy Jan Paderewski (1860-1941)

    Ignacy Jan Paderewski (1860-1941)

  • Gustav Mahler (1860-1911)

    Gustav Mahler (1860-1911)

  • Period: to

    American Civil War

  • Frederick Delius (1862-1934)

    Frederick Delius (1862-1934)

  • Claude Debussy (1862-1918)

    Claude Debussy (1862-1918)

  • President Lincoln issues the Emancipation Proclamation

  • Jean Sibelius (1865-1957)

    Jean Sibelius (1865-1957)

  • 13th Amendment is Ratified

  • Enrique Granados (1867-1916)

    Enrique Granados (1867-1916)

  • Dimitri Mendeleev creates the Periodic Table of Elements

  • Alexander Scriabin (1872-1915)

    Alexander Scriabin (1872-1915)

  • Ralph Vaughn Williams (1872-1958)

    Ralph Vaughn Williams (1872-1958)

  • Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943)

    Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943)

  • Blue jeans are invented!

  • Gustav Holst (1874-1934)

    Gustav Holst (1874-1934)

  • Manuel de Falla (1876-1946)

    Manuel de Falla (1876-1946)

  • Béla Bartók (1881-1945)

    Béla Bartók (1881-1945)

  • Zoltán Kodály (1882-1967)

    Zoltán Kodály (1882-1967)

  • Ernest Bloch (1885-1977)

    Ernest Bloch (1885-1977)

  • Louis Durey (1888-1979)

    Louis Durey (1888-1979)

  • Aspirin is patented

  • Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953)

    Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953)

  • Darius Milhaud (1892-1974)

    Darius Milhaud (1892-1974)

  • Arthur Honegger (1892-1955)

    Arthur Honegger (1892-1955)

  • Germaine Tailleferre (1892-1983)

    Germaine Tailleferre (1892-1983)

  • Paul Hindemith (1895-1963)

    Paul Hindemith (1895-1963)

  • Carl Orff (1895-1982)

    Carl Orff (1895-1982)

  • Francis Poulenc (1899-1963)

    Francis Poulenc (1899-1963)

  • Georges Auric (1899-1983)

    Georges Auric (1899-1983)

  • Kurt Weill (1900-1950)

    Kurt Weill (1900-1950)

  • Michael Tippett (1905-1998)

    Michael Tippett (1905-1998)

  • Dimitri Shostakovich (1906-1975)

    Dimitri Shostakovich (1906-1975)

  • Benjamin Britten (1913-1976)

    Benjamin Britten (1913-1976)

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