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Middle Ages

Conon de Bethune

La Comtessa Beatritz de Dia

Hildegard von Bingen (1098-1179)

Adam de la Halle

Leonin (Leoninus) (c.1163-1201)

Guillaume de Machaut (1300-1377)

Perotin (Perotinus Magnus) (c.1160-1220)

Wizlau von Rugen

Hans Sachs

Bernart de Ventadorn

Maria de Ventadorn (1165-1221)

Philippe de Vitry (1291-1361)

Renaissance

Jacob Arcadelt

Gilles Binchois

Jacopo da Bologna

William Byrd (1543-1623)

Francesca Caccini (1587-1640)

William Cornysh

John Dowland

Guillaume Dufay (c.1400-1474)

John Dunstable (c.1390-1453)

Giovanni Gabrieli

Carlo Gesualdo

Orlando Gibbons (1583-1625)

Heinrich Isaac

Orlando di Lasso (1532-1594)

Cristobal de Morales (c.1500-1553)

Jacob Obrecht (c.1450-1505)

Johannes Ockeghem (c.1410-1497)

Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (c.1525-1594)

Michael Praetorius

Josquin des Prez (c.1440-1521)

Thomas Tallis (c.1505-1585)

John Taverner

Tomas Luis de Victoria (1548-1611)

Thomas Weelkes

Adrian Willaert

Baroque

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)

Dietrich Buxtehude

Arcangelo Corelli (1653-1713)

Francois Couperin (1668-1733)

Girolamo Frescobaldi

George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)

Elizabeth-Claude Jacquet de la Guerre (1659-1729)

Jean-Baptiste Lully

Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643)

Jacopo Peri

Georg Phillip Telemann

Henry Purcell (1659-1695)

Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683-1764)

Alessandro Scarlatti

Heinrich Schutz (1585-1672)

Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)

Classical

Carl Philipp Emmanuel Bach

Johann Christian Bach (1735-1782)

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)

Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714-1787)

Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)

Giovanni Battista Pergolesi

Gioacchino Rossini (1792-1868)

Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757)

Romantic

Isaac Albeniz (1860-1909)

Hector Berlioz (1803-1869)

Georges Bizet (1838-1875)

Alexander Borodin (1833-1887)

Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)

Anton Bruckner (1824-1896)

Frederic Chopin (1810-1849)

Antonin Dvorak (1841-1904)

Cesar Franck (1822-1890)

Edvard Grieg (1843-1907)

Franz Liszt (1811-1886)

Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)

Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel (1805-1847)

Modeste Mussorgsky (1839-1881)

Carl Nielsen (1865-1931)

Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924)

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908)

Franz Schubert (1797-1828)

Clara Wieck Schumann (1819-1896)

"Composing gives me great pleasure... there is nothing that surpasses the joy of creation, if only because through it one wins hours of self-forgetfulness, when one lives in a world of sound."

Robert Schumann (1810-1856)

Jean Sibelius (1865-1957)

Bedrich Smetana (1824-1884)

Dame Ethyl Mary Smyth (1858-1944)

Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)

"How can one express the indefinable sensations that one experiences while writing an instrumental composition that has no definite subject? It is a purely lyrical process. It is a musical confession of the soul, which unburdens itself through sounds just as a lyric poet expresses himself through poetry... As the poet Heine said, 'Where words leave off, music begins.' "

Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901)

Carl Maria von Weber (1786-1826)

Richard Wagner (1813-1883)

Hugo Wolf (1860-1903)

20th Century

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John Adams

Samuel Barber

Bela Bartok (1881-1945)

Amy (H.H.A) Beach (1867-1944)

Alban Berg (1885-1935)

Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990)

Lili Boulanger (1893-1918)

Nadia Boulanger (1887-1979)

Pierre Boulez (b. 1925)

Benjamin Britten (1913-1976)

John Cage (1912-1992)

Aaron Copland (1900-1990)

Claude Debussy (1862-1918)

Edward Elgar (1856-1934)

George Gershwin (1898-1937)

Philip Glass<(b. 1937)

Henryk Gorecki

Paul Hindemith (1895-1963)

Charles Ives (1874-1954)

Leos Janacek (1854-1928)

Gustav Mahler (1860-1911)

Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953)

Sergei Rachmaninov (1873-1943)

Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)

Erik Satie (1866-1925)

Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951)

Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975)

Karlheinz Stockhausen (b.1928)

Richard Strauss (1864-1949)

Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971)

Germaine Tailleferre (1892-1983)

Edgard Varese (1883-1965)

William Walton (1902-1983)

Anton Webern (1883-1945)

Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)

Jazz

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Louis Armstrong

Miles Davis

Duke Ellington

Benny Goodman

Scott Joplin

"What is scurrilously called ragtime is an invention that is here to stay. ...Syncopations are no indication of light or trashy music..."

Stan Kenton

Glen Miller

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