Composers/History

Composers

Early music | up to 1400

Renaissance period | from approximately 1400-1600

Baroque period | from approximately 1600 to 1750

Johann Sebastian Bach
Germany

March 31, 1685 – July 28, 1750

George Frideric Handel
Germany

March 5, 1685 - April 14, 1759

Classical period from approximately 1750 to 1830

Joseph Haydn
Austria

Feb. 23, 1685 - April 14, 1759

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Austria

Jan. 27, 1756 - Dec. 5, 1791


Ludwig van Beethoven
Germany

Dec. 17, 1770 – March 26, 1827

Romantic period | approximate period from 1830 to 1900

Robert Schumann
Germany

June 8 , 1810 - July 29, 1856

Franz Liszt
Hugary

October 22 , 1811 - July 31, 1886

Clara Schumann
Germany

September 13, 1819 - May 20, 1896

Johannes Brahms
Germany

May 7, 1833 - April 3, 1897

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Russia

May 7, 1840 - November 6, 1893

20th century | 1900s

21st century | 2001-2100.



History of Music

Prehistoric to Ancient

Medieval

Renaissance

Baroque

Classical

Romantic

Modern