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500–1400
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1400–1600
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Baroque
1600–1750
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Classical
1730–1820
7 composers
Early Romantic
1800–1860
11 composers
Late Romantic & Grand Opera
1848–1915
13 composers
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1840–1920
10 composers
Impressionism
1875–1930
6 composers
Modernism
1900–1975
11 composers
Ragtime, Jazz & Song
1895–1975
9 composers
Contemporary & Film
1950–today
8 composers
Hildegard of Bingen
1098–1179
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Léonin
1135–1201
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Pérotin
1155–1230
Guillaume de Machaut
1300–1377
Josquin des Prez
1440–1521
Thomas Tallis
1505–1585
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
1525–1594
William Byrd
1543–1623
Claudio Monteverdi
1567–1643
Jean-Baptiste Lully
1632–1687
Henry Purcell
1659–1695
Arcangelo Corelli
1653–1713
Antonio Vivaldi
1678–1741
Johann Sebastian Bach
1685–1750
George Frideric Handel
1685–1759
Domenico Scarlatti
1685–1757
Jean-Philippe Rameau
1683–1764
Georg Philipp Telemann
1681–1767
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
1714–1788
Christoph Willibald Gluck
1714–1787
Joseph Haydn
1732–1809
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
1756–1791
Luigi Boccherini
1743–1805
Antonio Salieri
1750–1825
Ludwig van Beethoven
1770–1827
Franz Schubert
1797–1828
Niccolò Paganini
1782–1840
Vincenzo Bellini
1801–1835
Gaetano Donizetti
1797–1848
Frédéric Chopin
1810–1849
Felix Mendelssohn
1809–1847
Gioachino Rossini
1792–1868
Hector Berlioz
1803–1869
Robert Schumann
1810–1856
Franz Liszt
1811–1886
Clara Schumann
1819–1896
Richard Wagner
1813–1883
Giuseppe Verdi
1813–1901
Georges Bizet
1838–1875
Johannes Brahms
1833–1897
Anton Bruckner
1824–1896
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
1840–1893
Camille Saint-Saëns
1835–1921
Gabriel Fauré
1845–1924
Gustav Mahler
1860–1911
Giacomo Puccini
1858–1924
Edward Elgar
1857–1934
Richard Strauss
1864–1949
Sergei Rachmaninoff
1873–1943
Mikhail Glinka
1804–1857
Bedřich Smetana
1824–1884
Modest Mussorgsky
1839–1881
Alexander Borodin
1833–1887
Antonín Dvořák
1841–1904
Edvard Grieg
1843–1907
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
1844–1908
Isaac Albéniz
1860–1909
Manuel de Falla
1876–1946
Jean Sibelius
1865–1957
Claude Debussy
1862–1918
Alexander Scriabin
1872–1915
Erik Satie
1866–1925
Frederick Delius
1862–1934
Maurice Ravel
1875–1937
Ottorino Respighi
1879–1936
Alban Berg
1885–1935
Béla Bartók
1881–1945
Charles Ives
1874–1954
Arnold Schoenberg
1874–1951
Sergei Prokofiev
1891–1953
Igor Stravinsky
1882–1971
Paul Hindemith
1895–1963
Dmitri Shostakovich
1906–1975
Aaron Copland
1900–1990
Benjamin Britten
1913–1976
Olivier Messiaen
1908–1992
Scott Joplin
1867–1917
Jelly Roll Morton
1890–1941
George Gershwin
1898–1937
Cole Porter
1891–1964
Irving Berlin
1888–1989
Duke Ellington
1899–1974
Thelonious Monk
1917–1982
Charles Mingus
1922–1979
Leonard Bernstein
1918–1990
Astor Piazzolla
1921–1992
John Cage
1912–1992
György Ligeti
1923–2006
Karlheinz Stockhausen
1928–2007
Arvo Pärt
1935–today
Steve Reich
1936–today
Philip Glass
1937–today
John Adams (composer)
1947–today
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