The Story of Classical Music in Time
Baroque
Classical
Romantic
20th Century
1680
1690
1700
1710
1720
1730
1740
1750
1760
1770
1780
1790
1800
1810
1820
1830
1840
1850
1860
1870
1880
1890
1900
1910
1920
1930
1940
1950
1960
1970
1980
1678
1741
1685
1750
1685
1757
1685
1759
1732
1809
1756
1791
1770
1827
1792
1868
1797
1828
1804
1857
1809
1847
1810
1849
1810
1856
1811
1886
1813
1901
1813
1883
1825
1899
1833
1897
1833
1887
1835
1921
1838
1875
1839
1881
1840
1893
1841
1904
1843
1907
1844
1908
1858
1924
1860
1911
1862
1918
1864
1949
1866
1925
1873
1943
1875
1937
1891
1953
1906
1975
Antonio Vivaldi
Antonio Vivaldi1678 – 1741
Johann Sebastian Bach
Johann Sebastian Bach1685 – 1750
Domenico Scarlatti
Domenico Scarlatti1685 – 1757
George Frideric Handel
George Frideric Handel1685 – 1759
Joseph Haydn
Joseph Haydn1732 – 1809
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Mozart1756 – 1791
Ludwig van Beethoven
Ludwig van Beethoven1770 – 1827
Gioachino Rossini
Gioachino Rossini1792 – 1868
Franz Schubert
Franz Schubert1797 – 1828
Mikhail Glinka
Mikhail Glinka1804 – 1857
Felix Mendelssohn
Felix Mendelssohn1809 – 1847
Frédéric Chopin
Frédéric Chopin1810 – 1849
Robert Schumann
Robert Schumann1810 – 1856
Franz Liszt
Franz Liszt1811 – 1886
Giuseppe Verdi
Giuseppe Verdi1813 – 1901
Richard Wagner
Richard Wagner1813 – 1883
Johann Strauss II
Johann Strauss II1825 – 1899
Johannes Brahms
Johannes Brahms1833 – 1897
Alexander Borodin
Alexander Borodin1833 – 1887
Camille Saint-Saëns
Camille Saint-Saëns1835 – 1921
Georges Bizet
Georges Bizet1838 – 1875
Modest Mussorgsky
Modest Mussorgsky1839 – 1881
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky1840 – 1893
Antonín Dvořák
Antonín Dvořák1841 – 1904
Edvard Grieg
Edvard Grieg1843 – 1907
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov1844 – 1908
Giacomo Puccini
Giacomo Puccini1858 – 1924
Gustav Mahler
Gustav Mahler1860 – 1911
Claude Debussy
Claude Debussy1862 – 1918
Richard Strauss
Richard Strauss1864 – 1949
Erik Satie
Erik Satie1866 – 1925
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Sergei Rachmaninoff1873 – 1943
Maurice Ravel
Maurice Ravel1875 – 1937
Sergei Prokofiev
Sergei Prokofiev1891 – 1953
Dmitri Shostakovich
Dmitri Shostakovich1906 – 1975