western classical music
- adam kadishman shakine
- Oct 14, 2024
- 4 min read
(& it's roots)
The Early Middle Ages
Old Roman Chant
Gallican Chant
Byzantine Chant
Gregorian Chant
Ambrosian Chant
Mozarabic Chant
High Middle Ages - Late Middle Ages
-11th century-
books & collections:
Winchester Troper
-12th century-
composers:
Hildegard von bingen (german)
Walther von der Vogelweide (german)
Bernart de Ventadorn (French)
Léonin (French)
Pérotin (French)
-13th century-
composers:
Adam de la Halle (French)
books & collections:
Chansonnier du Roi (France)
Montpellier codex (France)
-14th century-
composers:
Philippe de Vitry (French)
Guillaume de Machaut (French)
Johannes Ciconia (Franco-Flemish)
Francesco Landini (Italian)
books & collections:
Ivrea Codex (France)
Robertsbridge codex (England & continental Europe)
The Renaissance
-15th century-
composers:
John Dunstaple (English)
Leonel Power (English)
John Browne (English)
Robert Fayrfax (English)
Guillaume Du Fay (French)
Antoine Busnois
Josquin des Prez (French)
Antoine Brumel (French)
Gilles Binchois (Franco-Flemish)
Johannes Ockeghem (Franco-Flemish)
Pierre de la Rue (Franco-Flemish)
Loyset Compère (Franco-Flemish)
Jacob Obrecht (Flemish)
Alexander Agricola (Netherlandish)
Heinrich Isaac (Netherlandish)
Juan del Encina (Spanish)
High Renaissance
-16th century-
composers:
Clément Janequin (French)
Philippe Verdelot (French)
Claudin de Sermisy (French)
Nicolas Gombert (Franco-Flemish)
Jacques Arcadelt (Franco-Flemish)
Cipriano de Rore (Franco-Flemish)
Adrian Willaert (Flemish)
Orlando di Lasso/Lassus (Flemish)
John Taverner (English)
Thomas Tallis (English)
Christopher Tye (English)
John Redford (English)
Osbert Parsley (English)
John Sheppard (English)
William Mundy (English)
Robert Parsons (English)
Robert White (English)
William Byrd (English)
Giles Farnaby (English)
Martin Peerson (English)
Thomas Tomkins ( Welsh/English)
John Dowland (English)
Thomas Morley (English)
Anthony Holborne (English)
Thomas Campion (English)
John Corprario (English)
Thomas Lupo the Elder (English)
Alfonso Ferrabosco the Younger (English)
Thomas Ravensacroft (English)
Thomas Weelkes (English)
Costanzo Festa (Italian)
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (Italian)
Giulio Caccini (Italian)
Giovanni Gabrieli (Italian)
Carlo Gesualdo (Italian)
Claudio Merulo (Italian)
Giovanni Maria Trabaci (Italian)
Cristóbal de Morales (Spanish)
Luis de Milán (Spanish)
Tomás Luis de Victoria (Spanish)
books and collections:
Cancionero de Palacio (Spanish)
Cancionero de Medinaceli (Spanish)
Cancionero de la Colombina (Spanish)
Thoinot Arbeau- L'orchestographie (French)
Praetorius- Terpsichore (mostly French)
Late Renaissance & Early Baroque
-from the late 16th century to the mid 17th century-
composers:
Claudio Monteverdi (Italian)
Girolamo Frescobaldi (Italian)
Francesco Cavalli (Italian)
Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck (Flemish)
Orlando Gibbons (English)
John Bull (English)
John Jenkins (English)
Jean Titelouze (French)
Heinrich Schutz (German)
Johann Jakob Froberger (German)
The Middle Baroque
-mid to late 17th century-
composers:
Jean Baptiste Lully (French)
Marc-Antoine Charpentier (French)
Nicolas Gigault (French)
Jean-Henri d'Anglebert (French)
Louis Couperin (French)
Giacomo Carissimi (Italian)
Alessandro Stradella (Italian)
Arcangelo Corelli (Italian)
Matthew Locke (English)
Henry Lawes (English)
William Lawes (English)
John Blow (English)
Henry Purcell (English)
Dieterich Buxtehude (Danish)
Johann Pachelbel (German)
Juan Bautista Cabanilles (Spanish)
The Late Baroque & galant style
-early 18th century-
Alessandro Scarlatti (Italian)
Antonio Caldara (Italian)
Antonio Vivaldi (Italian)
Domenico Scarlatti (Italian)
Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (Italian)
François Couperin (French)
Jean-Philippe Rameau (French)
William Croft (English)
Jeremiah Clarke (English)
Thomas Arne (English)
William Boyce (English)
Thomas Roseingrave (English/Irish)
Turlough O'Carolan (Irish)
Georg Philipp Telemann (German)
Johann Sebastian Bach (German)
Georg Frideric Handel (German)
Johann Adolph Hasse (German)
Christoph Willibald Gluck (German)
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (German)
books & collections:
John Playford: English Dancing Master
The Classical Era
-mid to late 18th century-
Carl Friedrich Abel (German)
Johann Christian Bach (German)
Joseph Haydn (Austrian)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Austrian)
Muzio Clementi (Italian)
Late Classical and Early Romantic
-19th century-
composers:
Fernando Sor (Spanish)
Ludwig von Beethoven (German)
Carl Maria von Weber (German)
Giacomo Meyerbeer (German)
Franz Schubert (German)
Felix Mendelssohn (German)
Richard Wagner (German)
Luigi Cherubini (Italian)
Niccolò Paganini (Italian)
Gioachino Rossini (Italian)
Gaetano Donizetti (Italian)
Vincenzo Bellini (Italian)
Giuseppe Verdi (Italian)
John Field (Irish)
Samuel Sebastian Wesley (English)
Franz Liszt (Hungarian)
Frédéric Chopin (Polish)
Hector Berlioz (French)
César Franck (French)
Jacques Offenbach (German born-French)
Johann Strauss I (Austrian)
Mikhail Glinka (Russian)
Mid Romantic
-mid to late 19th century-
composers:
Johannes Brahms (German)
Johann Strauss II (Austrian)
Camille Saint-Saëns (French)
Georges Bizet (French)
Gabriel Fauré (French)
Giacomo Puccini (Italian)
Alexander Borodin (Russian)
Modest Mussorgsky (Russian)
Pyotr Ilych Tchaikovsky (Russian)
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (Russian)
Antonín Dvořák (Czech)
Edvard Grieg (Norwegian)
Francisco Tárrega (Spanish)
Isaac Albéniz (Spanish)
Edward Elgar (English)
Late Romantic, Impressionist & early Modernist
-late 19th early 20th centuries
composers:
Sergei Rachmaninoff (Russian)
Alexander Scriabin (Russian)
Richad strauss (German)
Gustav Mahler (German)
Jean Sibelius (Finnish)
Claude Debussy (French)
Erik Satie (French)
Maurice Ravel (French)
Ralph Vaughan Williams (English)
Gustav Holst (English)
Modernism
-early 20th century-
composers:
Charles Ives (American)
Elliott Carter (American)
George Gershwin (American)
Arnold Schoenberg (Austrian)
Alban Berg (Austrian)
Anton Webern (Austrian)
Bela Bartok (Hungarian)
Heitor Villa-Lobos (Brazilian)
Igor Stravinsky (Russian)
Sergei Prokofiev (Russian)
Dmitri Shostakovich (Russian)
Edgard Varèse (French)
Olivier Messiaen (French)
-mid 20th century-
John Cage (American)
Benjamin Britten (English)
Witold Lutosławski (Polish)
György Ligeti (Hungarian)
Pierre Boulez (French)
Karlheinz Stockhausen (German)
Minimalism
-1960s onwards-
composers:
Arvo Pärt (Estonian)
La Monte Young (American)
Steve Reich (American)
Terry Riley (American)
Philip Glass (American)
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