Timeline Eric and Álvaro 2o trimestre

  • Gluck

    Gluck
    Christoph Willibald Gluck was a German composer, from the Bohemian region, Czech Republic. He is considered one of the most important opera composers of Classicism in the second half of the 18th century.
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    Classicism

    Classicism is the historiographical name of a cultural, aesthetic and intellectual movement, inspired by the aesthetic and philosophical patterns of classical antiquity.
  • Nannerl Mozart

    Nannerl Mozart
    Maria Anna Walburga Ignatia Mozart, also called Nannerl​ and Marianne, was a famous musician of the 18th century. She was the older sister of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and daughter of Leopold and Anna Maria Mozart.
  • W.A. Mozart

    W.A. Mozart
    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was the seventh child, but of his six siblings only one girl, Maria Anna, survived. Considered by many to be the greatest musical genius of all time, he composed an original and powerful work that covered genres as different as comic opera, sacred music and symphonies.
  • Maria Theresia Von Paradis

    Maria Theresia Von Paradis
    Maria Theresia von Paradis was an Austrian pianist and composer. Although he completely lost his sight from the age of three, this did not prevent the production and work of this great pianist, singer and composer from continuing to stand out.
  • Beethoven

    Beethoven
    Ludwig van Beethoven was a German composer, conductor, pianist and piano teacher. His musical legacy spans, chronologically, from Classicism to the beginnings of Romanticism.
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    romanticism

    Romanticism is a cultural movement that originated in Germany and the United Kingdom at the end of the 18th century as a reaction against the Enlightenment and neoclassicism, giving priority to feelings over reason.
  • Gioachino Rossini

    Gioachino Rossini
    Gioachino Rossini was an Italian composer who gained fame for his 39 operas, although he also wrote many songs, some chamber music and piano pieces and some sacred music. He set new standards for both comic and serious opera before retiring from large-scale composition while still in his thirties, at the height of his popularity.
  • Franz Schubert

    Franz Schubert
    Franz Peter Schubert, known as Franz Schubert, was an Austrian composer of the principles of musical Romanticism and, at the same time, a continuator of the classical sonata following the model of Ludwig van Beethoven.
  • Hector Berlioz

    Hector Berlioz
    Hector Berlioz was the leading French composer of Romantic music, best known for his innovative Symphonie fantastique and use of large-scale orchestras and choruses in works like The Trojans opera.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Felix Mendelssohn
    Felix Mendelssohn was a German composer, pianist, musical conductor, and teacher, one of the most-celebrated figures of the early Romantic period.
  • Frédéric Chopin

    Frédéric Chopin
    Frédéric François Chopin was a Franco-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.
  • J.Haydn

    J.Haydn
    He was an Austrian composer. He is one of the greatest representatives of the Classical 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.
  • Robert Schumman

    Robert Schumman
    Robert Schumanna was a German composer, pianist and music critic of the nineteenth century, considered one of the most important and representative composers of musical Romanticism.
  • Franz Liszt

    Franz Liszt
    Franz Liszt was an Austro-Hungarian Romantic composer, a virtuoso pianist, conductor, piano teacher, arranger and Franciscan layman. His Hungarian name was Liszt Ferencz, according to modern usage Liszt Ferenc, and from 1859 to 1865 he was officially known as Franz Ritter von Liszt.
  • Richard Wagner

    Richard Wagner
    Wilhelm Richard Wagner was a German composer, theatre director, essayist, and conductor who is chiefly known for his operas (or, as some of his mature works were later known, "music dramas").
  • Giuseppe Verdi

    Giuseppe Verdi
    Giuseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi, was an Italian composer best known for his operas. He was born near Busseto, a small town in the province of Parma, to a family of moderate means, receiving a musical education with the help of a local patron, Antonio Barezzi. Verdi came to dominate the Italian opera scene after the era of Gioachino Rossini, Vincenzo Bellini, and Gaetano Donizetti, whose works significantly influenced him.
  • Clara Schumann

    Clara Schumann
    Clara Josephine Schumann was a German pianist, composer, and piano teacher. Regarded as one of the most distinguished pianists of the Romantic era, she exerted her influence over the course of a 61-year concert career, changing the format and repertoire of the piano recital by lessening the importance of purely virtuosic works.
  • Bedřich Smetana

    Bedřich Smetana
    Bedřich Smetana was a Czech composer who pioneered the development of a musical style that became closely identified with his people's aspirations to a cultural and political "revival".
  • Johannes Brahms

    Johannes Brahms
    Johannes Brahms, Vienna, Austria-Hungary [now in Austria]) was a German composer and pianist of the Romantic period, who wrote symphonies, concerti, chamber music, piano works, choral compositions, and more than 200 songs.
  • Modest Mussorgsky

    Modest Mussorgsky
    Modest Mussorgsky was a Russian composer. His works include the opera Boris Godunov (1872), the symphonic poem A Night on Bald Mountain (1867) and the piano suite Pictures at an Exhibition (1874).
  • Piotr Ilich Chaikovski

    Piotr Ilich Chaikovski
    Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky was a Russian composer during the Romantic period. He was the first Russian composer whose music made a lasting impression internationally.
  • Antonín Dvořák

    Antonín Dvořák
    Antonín Leopold Dvořák was a Czech composer. He frequently employed rhythms and other aspects of the folk music of Moravia and his native Bohemia, following the Romantic-era nationalist example of his predecessor Bedřich Smetana.
  • Edvard Grieg

    Edvard Grieg
    Edvard Hagerup Grieg was a Norwegian composer and pianist. He is widely considered one of the leading Romantic era composers, and his music is part of the standard classical repertoire worldwide.
  • Rimsky Korsakov

    Rimsky Korsakov
    Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov was a Russian composer, a member of the group of composers known as The Five. He was a master of orchestration.
  • Giacomo Puccini

    Giacomo Puccini
    Giacomo Puccini was an Italian composer known primarily for his operas. Regarded as the greatest and most successful proponent of Italian opera after Verdi, he was descended from a long line of composers, stemming from the late Baroque era.
  • Hugo Wolf

    Hugo Wolf
    Hugo Philipp Jacob Wolf, was an Austrian composer, particularly noted for his art songs, or Lieder. He brought to this form a concentrated expressive intensity which was unique in late Romantic music, somewhat related to that of the Second Viennese School in concision but diverging greatly in technique.
  • Gustav Mahler

    Gustav Mahler
    Gustav Mahlerwas an Austro-Bohemian Romantic composer, and one of the leading conductors of his generation. As a composer he acted as a bridge between the 19th-century Austro-German tradition and the modernism of the early 20th century.
  • Claude Debussy

    Claude Debussy
    Achille Claude Debussy​ was a French composer, one of the most influential of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • Jean Sibelius

    Jean Sibelius
    Jean Sibelius was a Finnish composer of the late Romantic and early modern periods. He is widely regarded as his country's greatest composer.
  • Arnold Schönberg

    Arnold Schönberg
    He was an Austrian composer, musical theorist and painter of Jewish origin. He is recognized as one of the first composers to delve into atonal composition, and especially for the creation of the twelve-tone technique.
  • Maurice Ravel

    Maurice Ravel
    Joseph Maurice Ravel was a 20th century French composer. 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
    Manuel de Falla was a Spanish composer of musical nationalism, one of the most important of the first half of the 20th century.
  • Béla Bartók

    Béla Bartók
    Béla Bartók was a Hungarian musician who stood out as a composer, pianist and researcher of Eastern European folk music.
  • Ígor Stravinski

    Ígor Stravinski
    He was a Russian composer and conductor and one of the most important and transcendental musicians of the 20th century.
  • Joaquín Turina

    Joaquín Turina
    Joaquín Turina Pérez was a Spanish composer and musicologist representative of nationalism in the first half of the 20th century.
  • Zoltán Kódaly

    Zoltán Kódaly
    Zoltán Kodály was a prominent Hungarian musician whose musical style first went through a post-Viennese-Romantic phase and then evolved into its main characteristic:
  • Heitor Villa-Lobos

    Heitor Villa-Lobos
    Heitor Villa-Lobos was a Brazilian composer, conductor, cellist, and classical guitarist described as "the single most significant creative figure in 20th-century Brazilian art music".
  • George Gershwin

    George Gershwin
    George Gershwin was an American composer and pianist whose compositions spanned popular, jazz and classical genres.
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    XX century

    The 20th century was the period of one hundred years that began on January 1, 1901 and ended on December 31, 2000. It was a time of enormous leaps in technological, scientific and medical matters, as well as profound social and political changes that modified the international panorama.
  • Olivier Messiaen

    Olivier Messiaen
    He was a French composer, organist, pedagogue and ornithologist, one of the most prominent musicians of the 20th century.
  • Pierre Schaeffer

    Pierre Schaeffer
    He 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.
  • John Cage

    John Cage
    He was an American composer, music theorist, artist, and philosopher. A pioneer of aleatoric music, electronic music, and non-standard use of musical instruments, Cage was one of the leading figures of the postwar avant-garde.
  • Pierre Henry

    Pierre Henry
    He 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
    He is an American minimalist classical music composer. His international recognition increased since the appearance of his opera Einstein on the Beach.