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Johann Sebastian Bach 1685-1750. Baroque period German composer. Especially noted for his command of writing in a highly polyphonic style and for his cantatas, suites, passions, concertos, and concerto grossos.
Samuel Barber 1910-1981. Twentieth-century American composer whose music combined Romantic era lyrical qualities with judicious use of dissonance and rhythmic complexity. His style is often referred to as neoromantic.
Béla Bartok 1881-1945. Twentieth century Hungarian composer who incorporated folk tunes and rhythms into his compositions.
Hector Barlioz 1803-1869. Romantic period French composer, conductor, and music critic. His compositions were often very large in scope and employed unique instrumental combinations.
Leonard Bernstein 1918-1990. American composer and Conductor/Music Director of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra. Wrote compositions in both the edgy classicalstyle of the twentieth century and in a more popular vein for musical theatre, such as in West Side Story.
Johannes Brahms 1833-1897. Romantic per. German composer. Music emphasized compositional concepts of Classical period, w thematic development + adherence to traditional forms, while sounding Romantic in regard to lyrical quality of melody and thickness of orchestration.
Frederic Chopin 1810-1847. Romantic period Polish composer known primarily for music for the piano. He invented or redesigned many small-scale genres for the instrument including the etude, prelude, nocturne, mazurka, polonaisse, and ballade.
Aaron Copland 1900-1990. American composer especially noted for establishing a recognizably American style of music and for his ballet music based on American themes.
Claude Debussy 1862-1918. French impressionist composer noted for his ballets, orchestral works, and chamber music.
Josquin Des Prez ca. 1440-1521. Renaissance period Flemish composer of liturgical music, most known for the writing of masses and motets.
Giovanni Gabrieli 1548-1613. Italian Renaissance period composer noted for composing in an antiphonal style.
Philip Glass b. 1937. Contemporary, American, minimalist composer. The most successful composer using minimalist techniques having written in many genres including music for movie scores, operas, symphonies, etc.
Gregorian Chant Medieval period, sacred, monophonic, vocal music of the Catholic Church.
Frideric George Handel 1685-1759. German-born composer who worked primarily in England. Best known today for his oratorios, operas, and dance suites, particularly the Water Music and The Music for the Royal Fireworks.
Franz Joseph Haydn 1732-1809. Classical period composer frequently said to be "The Father of the Symphony" for his contributions to that genre. The court composer to the Esterhazy family for over 30 years, Haydn was one of the most influential composers of his time.
Hildegard of Bingen 1098-1179. Abbess of the convent at Rupertsburg near Bingen, Germany, and a prolific composer and writer.
Leonin ca. 1163-1190.Medieval composer noted for organum.
Lohengrin An opera by Romantic period German composer Richard Wagner based on the old Germanic legend of the Swan Knight. The opening of Act III features the melody that would eventually become Here Comes the Bride.
Gustav Mahler 1860-1911. Austrian Romantic composer known for the writing of symphonies and song cycles with orchestral accompaniment.
Felix Mendelssohn 1809-1847. Romantic period German composer noted for his orchestral music, oratorios, and incidental music and for reviving interest in the music of the Baroque composer Johann Sebastian Bach.
Claudio Monteverdi 1567-1643. Baroque period composer noted for his operas.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1756-1791. Classical period Austrian composer noted for his writing of operas, concertos, and symphonies. Especially noted for inventing the operatic sub-genre the dramma giocoso. Wrote an incomplete requiem mass that was completed by one of his students.
Giacomo Puccini 1858-1924. Italian Romantic period composer of operas. Known for the "verismo" style of realism in operatic writing in works such as La Boheme, Tosca, and Madame Butterfly.
Maurice Ravel 1875-1937. French composer associated with the impressionistic style, noted for his ballets, operas, and chamber music, also for orchestrating Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition.
The Rite of Spring A ballet composed by Igor Stravinsky. Noted as an example of musical Primitivism, the piece employs harsh dissonances, unpredictable and irregular rhythmic qualities, and short, motivic melodies.
Arnold Schoenberg 1874-1951. Austrian-born composer who developed both atonal and serial (twelve tone) compositional techniques.
Franz Schubert 1797-1828. Austrian Classical/Romantic period composer known for the writing of art songs (lieder), symphonies, and chamber music.
Dmitri Shostakovich 1906-1975. Twentieth-century Russian composer noted for his symphonies, operas, chamber music, and concert overtures.
Richard Strauss 1864-1949. German composer noted for his tone poems and operas.
Igor Stravinsky 1882-1971. Russian-born composer who lived in France and U.S. and was very influential in the development of primitivism and neoclassicism. Composer of The Rite of Spring. Known for being an example of musical primitivism.
Peter Ilyich Tchiakovsky 1840-1893. Russian Romantic period composer known for his symphonies, ballet music, including Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty, and The Nutcracker, and concert overtures such as the 1812 Overture and Romeo and Juliet.
The Five, The Might Five, The Russian Five A group of five Romantic period Russian nationalist composers, Mili Balakirev, Alexander Borodin, César Cui, Modest Mussorgsky, and Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov, who favored creating a distinctly Russian style of composition.
Giuseppe Verdi 1813-1901. Romantic period Italian composer known primarily for his operas. His Messa da Requiem, also known as the Manzoni Requiem, is an operatically inspired requiem mass.
Antonio Vivaldi 1678-1741. Baroque period Italian composer noted for his writing for stringed instruments.
Richard Wagner 1813-1883. Romantic period German composer of operas.
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