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Birth of Classical Music Composer Index

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Classical Composers Alphabetical

Romantic & Modern Periods

I = Impressionist so-called        E = Expressionist by description or intent        M = Minimalist by description or intent

Group & Last Name Index to Full History:

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Romantic Composers

Isaac Albéniz

Emilio Arrieta

Daniel Auber

Mily Balakirev

Francisco Barbieri

Ludwig van Beethoven

Vincenzo Bellini

Hector Berlioz

Georges Bizet

Alexander Borodin

Marco Enrico Bossi

Johannes Brahms

Tomás Bretón

Max Bruch

Anton Bruckner

Ferruccio Busoni

Antonio Casimir Cartellieri

Ruperto Chapí

Frédéric Chopin

Jean Cras

César Cui

Carl Czerny

Alexander Dargomyzhsky

Claude Debussy

Anton Diabelli

Gaetano Donizetti

Henri Duparc

Antonin Dvorák

Edward Elgar

Gabriel Fauré

The Five

César Franck

Alexander Glazunov

Reinhold Glière

Mikhail Glinka

Karl Goldmark

Edvard Grieg

Alexandre Guilmant

Gustav Holst

Vincent d'Indy

Charles Koechlin   I

Franz Liszt

Anatoly Lyadov

Gustav Mahler

Giuseppe Martucci

Jules Massenet

Felix Mendelssohn

André Messager

Giacomo Meyerbeer

The Mighty Handful

Ignaz Moscheles

Modest Mussorgsky

Carl Nielsen

Ignacy Paderewski

Hubert Parry

Hans Pfitzner

Amilcare Ponchielli

Giacomo Puccini

Sergei Rachmaninoff

Joachim Raff

Maurice Ravel   I

Carl Reinecke

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

Gioachino Antonio Rossini

Anton Rubinstein

Camille Saint-Saëns

Franz Schubert

Robert Schumann

Alexander Scriabin   I   E

Jean Sibelius

Bedrich Smetana

Fernando Sor

John Philip Sousa

Charles Stanford

Franz Strauss

Johann Strauss I

Johann Strauss II

Richard Strauss

Sergei Taneyev

Francisco Tárrega

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Ambroise Thomas

Giuseppe Verdi

Richard Wagner

Carl Maria von Weber

Charles-Marie Widor

Hugo Wolf

Early Modern Composers

Claudio Abbado

John Adams

Alejandro Núñez Allauca

Georges Auric

Milton Babbitt

Edgar Bainton

Béla Bartók   E

Arthur Benjamin

Alban Berg   E

Luciano Berio

Leonard Bernstein

Arthur Bliss

Victor Borge

Lili Boulanger

Nadia Boulanger

Pierre Boulez

Benjamin Britten

Earle Brown

Gavin Bryars   M

John Cage

Pablo Casals

Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco

Carlos Chavez

Van Cliburn

Aaron Copland

Henry Cowell

George Crumb

Luigi Dallapiccola

Paul Dukas

Louis Durey

Heino Eller

George Enescu

Péter Eötvös

Manuel de Falla

Arthur Fiedler

Brian Ferneyhough

Elena Firsova

Vittorio Giannini

Philip Glass   M

Leopold Godowsky

John Harbison

Roy Harris

Hans Werner Henze

Paul Hindemith   E

Arthur Honegger

Vladimir Horowitz

Charles Ives

Aram Khachaturian

Tikhon Khrennikov

Otto Klemperer

Zoltán Kodály

Fritz Kreisler

Ernst Krenek

Otomar Kvech

René Leibowitz

Valentino Liberace

György Ligeti

Theo Loevendie

Gian Francesco Malipiero

Henry Mancini

Tomás Marco

Darius Milhaud

Bruno Maderna

Olivier Messiaen

Nikolai Myaskovsky

Luigi Nono

Michael Nyman   M

Carl Orff

Eugene Ormandy

Leo Ornstein

Arvo Pärt   M

Stephen Paulus

George Perle

Walter Piston

Ildebrando Pizzetti

Francis Poulenc

Henri Pousseur

Sergey Prokofiev

Steve Reich   M

Ottorino Respighi

Terry Riley   M

Joaquin Rodrigo

Christopher Rouse

Arthur Rubinstein

Érik Satie

Franz Schmidt

Florent Schmitt

Alfred Schnittke

Arnold Schoenberg   E

Franz Schreker

Gunther Schuller

William Schuman

Joseph Schwantner

Humphrey Searle

Andrés Segovia

Roger Sessions

Ravi Shankar

Vissarion Shebalin

Dmitri Shostakovich

Alan Silvestri

The Six

Max Steiner

Isaac Stern

Karlheinz Stockhausen

Leopold Stokowski

Igor Stravinsky   E

Steven Stucky

Germaine Tailleferre

Alexandre Tansman

Third Stream

Federico Moreno Torroba

David Tudor

Heitor Villa-Lobos

Claude Vivier

William Walton

Anton Webern   E

Kurt Weill

John Williams

Ralph Vaughan Williams

Stefan Wolpe

La Monte Young   M

Alexander von Zemlinsky

Bernd Alois Zimmermann


YouTube History of Music

Black Gospel

Early

Modern

Blues

Early Blues 1: Guitar

Early Blues 2: Vocal - Other Instruments

Modern Blues 1: Guitar

Modern Blues 2: Vocal - Other Instruments

Classical

Medieval - Renaissance

Baroque

Galant - Classical

Romantic: Composers born 1770 to 1840

Romantic - Impressionist

Expressionist - Modern

Modern: Composers born 1900 to 1950

Country

Bluegrass

Folk

Country Western

Folk Music

Old

New

From without the U.S.

Jazz

Early Jazz 1: Ragtime - Bands - Horn

Early Jazz 2: Ragtime - Other Instrumentation

Swing Era 1: Big Bands

Swing Era 2: Song

Modern 1: Saxophone

Modern 2: Trumpet - Other Horn

Modern 3: Piano

Modern 4: Guitar - Other String

Modern 5: Percussion - Other Orchestration

Modern 6: Song

Modern 7: Latin Jazz - Latin Recording

Modern 8: United States 1960 - 1970

Modern 9: International 1960 - 1970

Latin

Latin Recording 1: Europe

Latin Recording 2: The Caribbean

Latin Recording 3: South America

Popular Music

Early

Modern

Rock & Roll

Early: Boogie Woogie

Early: R&B - Soul - Disco

Early: Doo Wop

The Big Bang - Fifties American Rock

Rockabilly

UK Beat

Total War - Sixties American Rock

Other Musical Genres

Musician Indexes

Classical - Medieval to Renaissance

Classical - Baroque to Classical

Classical - Romantic to Modern

Black Gospel - Country Folk

The Blues

Bluegrass - Folk

Country Western

Jazz Early - Ragtime - Swing Jazz

Jazz Modern - Horn

Jazz Modern - Piano - String

Jazz Modern - Percussion - Song - Other

Jazz Modern - 1960 to 1970

Boogie Woogie - Doo Wop - R&B - Rock & Roll - Soul - Disco

Boogie Woogie - Rockabilly

UK Beat - British Invasion

Total War - Sixties American Rock - Popular

Latin Recording - Europe

Latin Recording - The Caribbean - South America

 

 

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