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Christoph Willibald Gluck was a German composer, from the Bohemian region, Czech Republic. He is considered one of the most important opera composers of Classicism in the second half of the 18th century. -
Classicism is the historiographical name of a cultural, aesthetic and intellectual movement, inspired by the aesthetic and philosophical patterns of classical antiquity.
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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. -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was the seventh child, but of his six siblings only one girl, Maria Anna, survived. Considered by many to be the greatest musical genius of all time, he composed an original and powerful work that covered genres as different as comic opera, sacred music and symphonies. -
Maria Theresia von Paradis was an Austrian pianist and composer. Although he completely lost his 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. -
Ludwig van Beethoven was a German composer, conductor, pianist and piano teacher. His musical legacy spans, chronologically, from Classicism to the beginnings of Romanticism. -
Romanticism is a cultural movement that originated in Germany and the United Kingdom at the end of the 18th century as a reaction against the Enlightenment and neoclassicism, giving priority to feelings over reason.
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Gioachino Rossini was an Italian composer who gained fame for his 39 operas, although he also wrote many songs, some chamber music and piano pieces and some sacred music. He set new standards for both comic and serious opera before retiring from large-scale composition while still in his thirties, at the height of his popularity. -
Franz Peter Schubert, known as Franz Schubert, was an Austrian composer of the principles of musical Romanticism and, at the same time, a continuator of the classical sonata following the model of Ludwig van Beethoven. -
Hector Berlioz was the leading French composer of Romantic music, best known for his innovative Symphonie fantastique and use of large-scale orchestras and choruses in works like The Trojans opera. -
Felix Mendelssohn was a German composer, pianist, musical conductor, and teacher, one of the most-celebrated figures of the early Romantic period. -
Frédéric François Chopin was a Franco-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. -
He was an Austrian composer. He is one of the greatest representatives of the Classical period, in addition to being known as the "father of the symphony" and the "father of the string quartet" thanks to his important contributions to both genres. -
Robert Schumanna was a German composer, pianist and music critic of the nineteenth century, considered one of the most important and representative composers of musical Romanticism. -
Franz Liszt was an Austro-Hungarian Romantic composer, a virtuoso pianist, conductor, piano teacher, arranger and Franciscan layman. 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. -
Wilhelm Richard Wagner was a German composer, theatre director, essayist, and conductor who is chiefly known for his operas (or, as some of his mature works were later known, "music dramas"). -
Giuseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi, was an Italian composer best known for his operas. He was born near Busseto, a small town in the province of Parma, to a family of moderate means, receiving a musical education with the help of a local patron, Antonio Barezzi. Verdi came to dominate the Italian opera scene after the era of Gioachino Rossini, Vincenzo Bellini, and Gaetano Donizetti, whose works significantly influenced him. -
Clara Josephine Schumann was a German pianist, composer, and piano teacher. Regarded as one of the most distinguished pianists of the Romantic era, she exerted her influence over the course of a 61-year concert career, changing the format and repertoire of the piano recital by lessening the importance of purely virtuosic works. -
Bedřich Smetana was a Czech composer who pioneered the development of a musical style that became closely identified with his people's aspirations to a cultural and political "revival". -
Johannes Brahms, Vienna, Austria-Hungary [now in Austria]) was a German composer and pianist of the Romantic period, who wrote symphonies, concerti, chamber music, piano works, choral compositions, and more than 200 songs. -
Modest Mussorgsky was a Russian composer. His works include the opera Boris Godunov (1872), the symphonic poem A Night on Bald Mountain (1867) and the piano suite Pictures at an Exhibition (1874). -
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky was a Russian composer during the Romantic period. He was the first Russian composer whose music made a lasting impression internationally. -
Antonín Leopold Dvořák was a Czech composer. He frequently employed rhythms and other aspects of the folk music of Moravia and his native Bohemia, following the Romantic-era nationalist example of his predecessor Bedřich Smetana. -
Edvard Hagerup Grieg was a Norwegian composer and pianist. He is widely considered one of the leading Romantic era composers, and his music is part of the standard classical repertoire worldwide. -
Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov was a Russian composer, a member of the group of composers known as The Five. He was a master of orchestration. -
Giacomo Puccini was an Italian composer known primarily for his operas. Regarded as the greatest and most successful proponent of Italian opera after Verdi, he was descended from a long line of composers, stemming from the late Baroque era. -
Hugo Philipp Jacob Wolf, was an Austrian composer, particularly noted for his art songs, or Lieder. He brought to this form a concentrated expressive intensity which was unique in late Romantic music, somewhat related to that of the Second Viennese School in concision but diverging greatly in technique. -
Gustav Mahlerwas an Austro-Bohemian Romantic composer, and one of the leading conductors of his generation. As a composer he acted as a bridge between the 19th-century Austro-German tradition and the modernism of the early 20th century. -
Achille Claude Debussy was a French composer, one of the most influential of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. -
Jean Sibelius was a Finnish composer of the late Romantic and early modern periods. He is widely regarded as his country's greatest composer. -
He was an Austrian composer, musical theorist and painter of Jewish origin. He is recognized as one of the first composers to delve into atonal composition, and especially for the creation of the twelve-tone technique. -
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 was a Spanish composer of musical nationalism, one of the most important of the first half of the 20th century. -
Béla Bartók was a Hungarian musician who stood out as a composer, pianist and researcher of Eastern European folk music. -
He was a Russian composer and conductor and one of the most important and transcendental musicians of the 20th century. -
Joaquín Turina Pérez was a Spanish composer and musicologist representative of nationalism in the first half of the 20th century. -
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: -
Heitor Villa-Lobos was a Brazilian composer, conductor, cellist, and classical guitarist described as "the single most significant creative figure in 20th-century Brazilian art music". -
George Gershwin was an American composer and pianist whose compositions spanned popular, jazz and classical genres. -
The 20th century was the period of one hundred years that began on January 1, 1901 and ended on December 31, 2000. It was a time of enormous leaps in technological, scientific and medical matters, as well as profound social and political changes that modified the international panorama.
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He was a French composer, organist, pedagogue and ornithologist, one of the most prominent musicians of the 20th century. -
He 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 was an American composer, music theorist, artist, and philosopher. A pioneer of aleatoric music, electronic music, and non-standard use of musical instruments, Cage was one of the leading figures of the postwar avant-garde. -
He 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. -
He is an American minimalist classical music composer. His international recognition increased since the appearance of his opera Einstein on the Beach.