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COMPOSERS BY HISTORICAL PERIOD

MEDIEVAL

Hildegard

Guillaume, de Machaut

Also check under subject: Chants (Plain, Gregorian, etc.)

RENAISSANCE PERIOD
1450 - 1600

Guillaume Dufay

Giovanni Gabrieli

Orlando di Lasso

Carlos Gesualdo

Josquin, des Prez

Johannes Ockeghem

Giovanni Palestrina

Jacob Obrecht

William Byrd (1542 - 1623)

Heinrich Isaac

Tomas Luis de Victoria

Orlando Gibbons

John Dowland

Thomas Morley

BAROQUE PERIOD
1600 - 1750

Claudio Monteverdi

Heinrich Schutz

Henry Purcell

Arcangelo Corelli

Antonio Vivaldi

Johann Sebastian Bach

George Frideric Handel

Domenico Scarlatti

VIENNESE ERA/CLASSICAL PERIOD
1750 -1825

Joseph Haydn

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Ludwig van Beethoven

ROMANTIC PERIOD
1800 - 1900

Franz Schubert

Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy

Robert Schumann

Charles Gounod

Johannes Brahms

Frederic Chopin

Hector Berlioz

Cesar Franck

Franz Liszt

Georges Bizet

Gioacchino Rossini

Gaetano Donizetti

 Giuseppe Verdi

Vincenzo Bellini

Anton Bruckner

Ruggiero Leoncavallo

Pietro Mascagni

Antonin Dvorak

Carl Maria von Weber

Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky

Richard Wagner (1813 - 1883)

Modest Mussorgsky

Gustav Mahler

Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov

20th CENTURY

Richard Strauss (1864 - 1949)

Charles Griffes

Aleksandr Scriabin

Benjamin Britten

Manuel De Falla

Sergy Prokofiev

Henry Cowell

Igor Stravinsky

Charles Ives

Roy Harris

Jean Sibelius

Francis Poulenc

Edward Elgar

Paul Hindemith

Ralph Vaughan Williams

Olivier Messiaen

Gustav Holst

Arnold Schoenberg

Gabriel Faure

Alban Berg

 Camille Saint-Saens

Anton Webern

Lili Boulanger

Milton Babbitt

Claude Debussy

John Cage

Erik Satie

George Crumb

Maurice Ravel

Edgard Varese

Bela Bartok

Karlheinz Stockhausen

Aaron Copland

Philip Glass

Ruth Crawford Seeger

Terry Riley

Howard Swanson

Morton Subotnick

La Monte Young

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