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Gluck
Christoph Willibald Gluck, since 1756 Knight of Gluck (Ritter von Gluck, in German) (Erasbach, July 2, 1714 - Vienna, November 15, 1787) was a German composer, from the region of Bohemia, Czech Republic. He is considered one of the most important opera composers of the Classicism of the second half of the 18th century. -
J. Haydn
Franz Joseph Haydn (pronounced i)[1] (Rohrau, near Vienna; March 31, 1732-Vienna; May 31, 1809), known as Joseph Haydn, was an Austrian composer. He is one of the highest representatives of the Classic 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. It also contributed to the instrumental development of the trio with piano and in the evolution of the sonata form. -
Nannerl Mozart
Maria Anna Walburga Ignatia Mozart (Salzburg, July 30, 1751 - Ibid., October 29, 1829), also called Nannerl[1] and Marianne, was a famous music of the 18th century. She was the older sister of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and the daughter of Leopold and Anna Maria Mozart. -
W.A. Mozart
Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart (Salzburg, January 27, 1756 - Vienna, December 5, 1791), better known as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, was an Austrian composer, pianist, conductor and professor of the former Archbishopric of Salzburg (formerly part of the Holy Roman Empire, now part of Austria), master of Classicism, considered one of the most influential and outstanding musicians in history. -
Maria Theresia Von Paradis
Maria Theresia von Paradis was an Austrian pianist and composer. Despite the fact that from the age of three he completely lost his sight, this was not an impediment for the production and work of this great pianist, singer and songwriter to stand out. His contributions were fundamental to the music education of his time, especially for the blind. He caused great interest in the renowned composers of his time, including Mozart and Haydn. -
Beethoven
Ludwig van Beethoven (Bonn, Archbishopric of Cologne; December 16, 1770[b] - Vienna, March 26, 1827) was a German composer, conductor, pianist and piano teacher. His musical legacy spans, chronologically, from Classicism to the beginning of Romanticism. He is considered one of the most important composers in the history of music and his legacy has decisively influenced the subsequent evolution of this art. -
Rossini
Gioachino Rossini[a] (Pésaro, Pontifical States, February 29, 1792-Passy, Paris, Second French Empire, November 13, 1868) was an Italian composer who gained fame for his 39 operas, although he also wrote many songs, some pieces of chamber and piano music and some sacred music. He set new standards for both comic and serial opera before retiring from large-scale composition when he was still in his thirties, at the height of his popularity.. -
Schubert
Franz Peter Schubert (Vienna, January 31, 1797-ibid., November 19, 1828) was an Austrian composer of the principles of musical Romanticism but, at the same time, a continuation of the classical sonata following the model of Ludwig van Beethoven. Despite his short life, he left a great legacy, which includes more than six hundred secular vocal works (mainly lieder), seven complete symphonies, sacred music, operas, incidental music and a large number of works for piano and chamber music. -
Berlioz
Louis Hector Berlioz was a French composer and leading figure of romanticism. His best-known work is the Fantastic Symphony, premiered in 1830. -
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. -
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. -
Schumann
Robert Schumann [a] (Zwickau, June 8, 1810 - Bonn, July 29, 1856) was a German composer, pianist and music critic of the nineteenth century, considered one of the most important and representative composers of musical Romanticism. -
Wagner
He w as a German composer, conductor, poet, essayist, playwright and musical theorist of Romanticism. His operas stand out mainly. -
Wagner
Wilhelm Richard Wagner (Leipzig, Kingdom of Saxony, Confederation of the Rhine, May 22, 1813 - Venice, Kingdom of Italy, February 13, 1883) was a German composer, conductor, poet, essayist, playwright and musical theorist of Romanticism. He mainly highlights his operas (qualified as "musical dramas" by the composer himself) in which, unlike other composers, he also assumed the libretto and the scenography. -
Verdi
Giuseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi (Le Roncole, Busseto, October 10, 1813 - Milan, January 27, 1901) was an Italian romantic opera composer, one of the most important of all time. His work serves as a bridge between the beautiful singing of Rossini, Bellini and Donizetti, and the current of Verismo and Puccini. -
Listz
Franz Liszt was an Austro-Hungarian romantic composer, virtuoso pianist, conductor, piano teacher, arranger and lay Franciscan. His Hungarian name was Liszt Ferencz, in modern usage Liszt Ferenc, and from 1859 to 1865 he was officially known as Franz Ritter von Liszt. -
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; He 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. -
Brahms
Johannes Brahms (Hamburg, May 7, 1833 - Vienna, April 3, 1897) was a German composer, pianist and conductor of Romanticism, considered the most classic of the composers of that period. Born in Hamburg into a Lutheran family, he spent much of his professional life in Vienna. -
Musorgski
Modest Musorgsky 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. -
Chaikovski
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 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. -
Dvorak
Antonín Leopold Dvořák was a post-romantic composer from Bohemia – a territory then belonging to the Austrian Empire –, 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. -
Puccini
Giacomo Antonio Domenico Michele Secondo Maria Puccini (Lucca, December 22, 1858 - Brussels, November 29, 1924), better known simply as Giacomo Puccini, was an Italian opera composer, considered among the greatest, from the late nineteenth and early 20th centuries. -
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. -
Gustav Mahler
Gustav Mahler (Kaliště, Kingdom of Bohemia in the present-day Czech Republic, Austrian Empire, July 7, 1860-Vienna, Austro-Hungarian Empire, May 18, 1911) was an Austro-Bohemian composer and conductor whose works are considered, along with those of Richard Strauss, the most important of post-Romanticism. -
Debussy
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, registered at birth as Johan Julius Christian Sibelius, was a Finnish composer and violinist of late Romanticism and early Modernism. -
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
Ravel was a French composer of the 20th century. 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 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 time. . -
Bartok
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. -
Stravinsky
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. -
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. -
Kodaly
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. -
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. -
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. -
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. -
Philip 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.