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750
Gregorian Chant
It was a type of plainchant, simple, monodic and with music subject to the text used in the liturgy of the Catholic Church, although sometimes it is used in a broad sense or even as a synonym for plainchant. -
Dec 7, 991
Guido d arezzo
Guido of Arezzo, in Italian: Guido D'Arezzo, was an Italian Benedictine monk and musical theorist who constitutes one of the central figures of the music of the Middle Ages along with Hucbaldo. -
1098
Hildegard von Bingen
Hildegard of Bingen was a German holy Benedictine abbess and polymath, active as a composer, writer, philosopher, scientist, naturalist, physician, mystic, monastic leader and prophetess during the Middle Ages. -
1135
Bernart de Ventadom
Bernart de Ventadorn, also known as Bernart de Ventadour and Bernard de Ventadorn, was a popular Provençal troubadour, composer and poet. He is probably the best-known trobador of the style called trobar leu. -
Oct 23, 1160
Perotín
Perotín, called in French Pérotin le Grand or in Latin Magister Perotinus Magnus, was a medieval French composer, who was born in Paris between 1155 and 1160 and died around 1230. Considered the most important composer of the School of Notre Dame of Paris, in which The polyphonic style began to take shape. -
1201
Leonin
Léonin or Magister Leoninus is, along with Perotín, the first known composer of polyphonic organum, related to the School of Notre Dame. -
Nov 23, 1221
Alfonso X el Sabio
King of Castile. His reign stood out for a policy of collaboration between the three cultures of medieval Spain: Hebrew, Arab and Christian. -
Mar 5, 1250
Ars Antiqua
Refers to the music of Europe of the late Middle Ages approximately between 1170 and 1310, covering the period of the Notre Dame School of polyphony and the years after. -
1300
Guillaume de Machaut
Guillaume de Machaut was a medieval French clergyman, poet and composer. His projection was enormous and he is historically the greatest representative of the movement known as Ars nova, being considered the most famous composer of the 14th century. He contributed to the development of the motet and secular song. -
1315
Ars Nova
Ars Nova (“new art,” in Latin) is the title of a treatise (ca. 1322) that conveys the teachings of Philippe de Vitry but has become generic to describe a period of musical composition. -
1325
Francesco Landini
Francesco Landini or Landino was an Italian composer, organist, singer, poet, instrument maker and astrologer. He was one of the most famous and admired composers of the second half of the 14th century and without a doubt the most famous composer in Italy. -
1400
Johannes Gutenberg
Johannes Gensfleisch zur Laden zum Gutenberg, better known as Johannes Gutenberg or Johannes Gutemberg, was a German goldsmith, inventor of the modern printing press with movable type, around 1450. -
1468
Juan del Encina
He was a poet, musician and playwright of the Spanish Renaissance during the time of the Catholic Monarchs. -
1483
Martín Lutero
Martin Luther, born Martin Luder, was an Augustinian Catholic theologian, philosopher, and friar who began and promoted the Protestant Reformation in Germany and whose teachings inspired the theological and cultural doctrine called Lutheranism. -
1500
Cristóbal de Morales
Spanish composer. Undisputed master of polyphonic sacred music, his work is considered one of the summits of Spanish Renaissance polyphony. -
1510
Antonio de Cabezón
Antonio de Cabezón was a Spanish organist, harpist and composer of the Renaissance. -
1525
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina was an Italian Renaissance composer of sacred music and the best-known representative of the 16th-century Roman School of musical composition. -
1532
Orlando di Lasso
Orlando di Lasso, also known as Orlandus Lassus, Roland de Lassus, Roland Delattre or Orlande de Lassus was a Franco-Flemish composer of the late Renaissance. Along with Palestrina and Victoria, he is considered one of the most influential composers of the 16th century. -
1533
Andrea Gabrieli
Andrea Gabrieli was an Italian composer and organist of the late Renaissance. Uncle of perhaps the most famous composer Giovanni Gabrieli, he was the first internationally renowned member of the Venetian School of composers. He had great influence on the spread of the Venetian style in both Italy and Germany. -
1544
Maddalena Casulana
Maddalena Casulana was an Italian composer, violin player and singer of the late Renaissance. She was the first woman composer to have an entire exclusive volume of her music printed and published in the history of Western music. -
1548
Tomás Luis de Victoria
Tomás Luis de Victoria was a Catholic priest, chapel teacher and famous polyphonist composer of the Spanish Renaissance. He has been considered one of the most relevant and advanced composers of his time, with an innovative style that heralded the imminent Baroque. -
1557
Giovanni Gabrieli
Giovanni Gabrieli was an Italian composer and organist, born and died in Venice. One of the most influential musicians of his time, he represents the culmination of the Venetian school, framed in the transition from Renaissance music to Baroque music. -
1566
Carlo Gesualdo
Carlo Gesualdo, Prince of Venosa and Count of Conza, was an Italian composer, one of the most significant figures of late Renaissance music with intensely expressive madrigals and pieces of sacred music with a chromaticism that will not be heard again until the end of the century. XIX. -
1567
Claudio Monteverdi
He was an Italian composer, viola player, singer, choir director and priest. -
Giacomo Carissimi
Giacomo Carissimi was one of the most eminent Italian composers of the early Baroque and one of the main representatives of the Roman School. He was born in Marino, near Rome, in 1604 or 1605. -
Barbara Strozzi
Barbara Strozzi, also called Barbara Valle, was an Italian Baroque singer and composer. During her lifetime, she published eight volumes of her own music and had more secular music in print than any other composer of the time. -
Stradivarius
Antonio Stradivari was the most prominent Italian luthier. The Latin form of his surname, Stradivarius, is used to refer to his instruments. -
Henry Purcel
He was an English Baroque composer. Considered one of the best English composers of all time, he incorporated French and Italian stylistic elements into his music, generating his own English style of baroque music. -
George Philipp Telemann
Georg Philipp Telemann was a German Baroque composer, although his work also had characteristics of early classicism. He is considered the most prolific composer in the history of music. Self-taught in music, he studied law at the University of Leipzig. -
Antonio Vivaldi
Antonio Vivaldi fue un compositor, violinista, impresario, profesor y sacerdote católico veneciano del Barroco. Era apodado Il prete rosso por ser sacerdote y pelirrojo. -
Johann Sebastian Bach
Johann Sebastian Bach was a German composer, musician, conductor, chapelmaster, singer and teacher of the Baroque period. He was the most important member of one of the most prominent families of musicians in history, with more than 35 famous composers: the Bach family -
Anna Mozart
Maria Anna Walburga Ignatia Mozart, también llamada Nannerl y Marianne, fue una famosa música del siglo XVIII. Era la hermana mayor de Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart e hija de Leopold y Anna Maria Mozart -
Gluck
Christoph Willibald Gluck, desde 1756 caballero de Gluck fue un compositor alemán, proveniente de la región de Bohemia, República Checa. Es considerado uno de los compositores de ópera más importantes del Clasicismo de la segunda mitad del siglo XVIII -
Mozart
Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart, más conocido como Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, fue un compositor, pianista, director de orquesta y profesor del antiguo Arzobispado de Salzburgo, maestro del Clasicismo, considerado como uno de los músicos más influyentes y destacados de la historia. -
Georg Friedrich Hände
Georg Friedrich Handel; in English George Frideric Handel was a German composer, later naturalized English, considered one of the leading figures in the history of music, especially the baroque, and one of the most influential composers of Western and universal music. -
Maria Theresia Von Paradis
Maria Theresia von Paradis fue una pianista y compositora austriaca. A pesar de que desde los tres años perdiera por completo la vista, esto no fue impedimento para que la producción y obra de esta gran pianista, cantante y compositora no dejara de destacar. -
Beethoven
Ludwig van Beethoven fue un compositor, director de orquesta, pianista y profesor de piano alemán. Su legado musical abarca, cronológicamente, desde el Clasicismo hasta los inicios del Romanticismo. -
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. -
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. -
Hector Berlioz
Louis Hector Berlioz was a French composer and leading figure of romanticism. His best-known work is the Fantastic Symphony, premiered in 1830. -
Hadyn
Franz Joseph Haydn , conocido como Joseph Haydn, fue un compositor austriaco. Es uno de los máximos representantes del periodo Clásico, además de ser conocido como el «padre de la sinfonía» y el «padre del cuarteto de cuerda» gracias a sus importantes contribuciones a ambos géneros. -
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. -
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. -
Frédéric Chopin
Frédéric François Chopin 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, who wrote mainly for solo piano. -
Franz Liszt
Franz Liszt was an Austro-Hungarian romantic composer, virtuoso pianist, conductor, piano teacher, arranger and lay Franciscan. His Hungarian name was Liszt Ferencz, according to modern usage Liszt Ferenc, and from 1859 to 1865 he was officially known as Franz Ritter von Liszt. -
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, Bellini and Donizetti, and the current of verismo and Puccini. -
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. -
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. -
Smetana
Bedřich Smetana was a composer born in Bohemia, a region that during the musician's lifetime was part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. He was a pioneer in 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.7 -
Musorgski
Modest Mussorgsky was a Russian composer, member of the group "The Five." His works include the operas Boris Godunov and Jovánschina, the symphonic poem A Night on Monte Pelado and the piano suite Pictures at an Exhibition. Mussorgsky was an innovator of Russian music in the Romantic period. -
Piotr Ilich Chaikovski
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Votkinsk, April 25-Jul./May 7, 1840greg.-St. Petersburg, October 25-Jul. ./ November 6, 1893greg.)note 2 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, the 1812 Overture, the fantasy-overture Romeo and Juliet, the First Piano Concerto, the Violin Concerto. -
Dvorak
Antonín Leopold Dvořák was a post-romantic composer from Bohemia. He was one of the first Czech composers to achieve worldwide recognition and one of the great composers of the second half of the 19th century. -
Grieg
Edvard Hagerup Grieg, commonly cited as Edvard Grieg, was a Norwegian composer and pianist, considered one of the main representatives of late Romanticism. -
Rimski-Korsakov
Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov was a Russian composer, conductor and pedagogue, member of the group of composers known as The Five. -
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. -
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. -
Debussy
Achille Claude Debussy 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
Jean Sibelius, recorded at birth as Johan Julius Christian Sibelius, was a Finnish composer and violinist of the late Romantic and early Modern era. -
Schönberg
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. -
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. -
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. -
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. -
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. -
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. -
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. -
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. -
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 -
Gershwin
George Gershwin was an American musician, composer and pianist. He is popularly recognized for having managed to make a perfect amalgam between classical music and jazz, which is evident in his prodigious works. -
Messiaen
Olivier Messiaen was a French composer, organist, pedagogue and ornithologist, one of the most outstanding musicians of the entire century. -
Pierre Schaeffer
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 his entire theory on this type of music. He composed different works, all of them based on the technique of concrete music. -
• 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. -
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. -
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. -
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.