Music Through The Ages - Timeline

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COMPOSERS & PERFORMERS:

Late Renaissance/Baroque

  • Pierluigi da Palestrina
  • Claudio Monteverdi
  • Jean-Baptiste Lully
  • Archangelo Corelli
  • Henry Purcell
  • Alessandro Scarlatti
  • Antonio Vivaldi
  • Georg Philipp Telemann
  • Jean-Phillipe Rameau
  • Domenico Scarlatti
  • Johann Sebastian Bach
  • George Frideric Handel

Classical

  • Franz Josef Haydn
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  • Ludwig van Beethoven
  • Franz Schubert
  • Felix Mendelssohn
  • Frédéric Chopin
  • Robert Schumann
  • Franz Liszt
  • Richard Wagner
  • Giuseppe Verdi
  • Anton Bruckner
  • Johann Strauss, Jr.

Romantic

  • Johannes Brahms
  • Georges Bizet
  • Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
  • Antonin Dvorák
  • Edvard Grieg
  • Edward MacDowell
  • Claude Debussy
  • Richard Strauss
  • Scott Joplin
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams
  • Sergei Rachmaninoff

Early to Mid 20th Century

  • Arnold Schoenberg
  • Charles Ives
  • Ottorino Respighi
  • Béla Bartók
  • Igor Stravinsky
  • Sergei Prokofiev
  • Bessie Smith
  • George Gershwin
  • Duke Ellington
  • Aaron Copland
  • Louis Armstrong
  • Richard Rodgers & Oscar Hammerstein II
  • Fats Waller
  • Benjamin Britten
  • Ella Fitzgerald
  • Leonard Bernstein
  • Charlie Parker

Mid and Later 20th Century

  • Fats Domino
  • Little Richard
  • John Williams
  • Elvis Presley
  • Jerry Lee Lewis
  • Brian Wilson
  • Stevie Wonder
  • Everly Brothers
  • Michael Jackson
  • Wynton Marsalis
  • Rolling Stones
  • The Beatles
  • LL Cool J