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 Posted: Tue Aug 30, 2005 7:57 pm
Liquid_Len They are the composers you already wrote about... I just added operas. By the way, I wrote this list with the help of a friend after noticing a couple of names missing. He pointed out (being a Tchaikovsky fan) that as far as he knew Tchaikovsky didn't write an opera called Romeo & Juliet. I didn't think of bringing it up but I just remembered I actually heard the piece (in a concert played by the Israeli Philharmonic) and it was an orchestral piece and not an opera. Why not compile a list of the main compositions by the composers? I could really use the reference myself as I'm sure might too. Further more, Handel's Messiah isn't an opera. I think it's a Passion but I can't be sure. Yeah...Romeo & Juliet is a ballet.
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Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2005 9:30 pm
hmmm.. what about john rutter??
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Posted: Sun Oct 30, 2005 11:21 pm
Hmm . . . Harvested Sorrow, if you don't mind, I would like to make some alterations to the list.
I would also suggest adding a Renaissance section too because they are also important in the history of Western classical music, even if they aren't given a lot of airplay or recognized much. The reason a lot of pre-Baroque music doesn't get performed much is that little of it had much to do with secular things as opposed to masses, passions, and other religious subtexts. But in the music history class I took, everything from the 2nd millennium (1000-2000) was considered important.
Also, to avoid some confusion with the transitional composers, I would subdivide the larger periods into smaller sections when appropriate, and place composers more or less where they sound like they belong in both in terms of their style and where in time they exist, so there is less of the same name of two lists thing to represent the transitionals. I hope it isn't too confusing.
My revision of the list: (additions noted with an *)
*Medieval: (pre-1450)
Gregorian Chants
Notre Dame School
Ars Nova
Hildegard von Bingen
Guillame de Machaut
*Renaissance: (1450-1600)
English and Italian Madrigal Schools
William Byrd
John Dowland
Guillame Dufay
Giovanni Gabrieli
Carlo Gesualdo
Josquin des Prez
Orlando de Lassus
Johannes Ockeghem
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
Michael Praetorius
Tielman Susato
Thomas Tallis
*Early Baroque (1600-1680)
Giacomo Carissimi
Claudio Monteverdi
Heinrich Schutz
Barbara Strozzi
Late Baroque (the better known Baroque) (1680-1750)
Tomaso Albinoni
Johann Sebastian Bach
*Arcangelo Corelli
*Francois Couperin
George Frideric Handel
Johann Pachelbel
*Henry Purcell
*Jean-Philippe Rameau
Domenico Scarlatti
Georg Philipp Telemann
Antonio Vivaldi
Classical (1740-1830)
Carl Philip Emanuel Bach
Ludwig van Beethoven
Luigi Boccherini
*William Boyce
Muzio Clementi
Christoph Willibald Gluck
Joseph Haydn
*Johann Nepomuk Hummel
Leopold Mozart
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Giovanni Battista Pergolesi
Romantic (1820-1920)
Early Romantic
Hector Berlioz
*Franz Berwald
Frederic Chopin
*Carl Czerny
Mikhail Glinka
*Louis Moreau Gottschalk
Franz Liszt
Felix Mendelssohn
Nicolo Paganini
*Gioacchino Rossini
Franz Schubert
Robert Schumann
*Louis Spohr
Carl Maria von Weber
*Clara Wieck (aka Clara Schumann)
High Romantic
*Georges Bizet
Alexander Borodin
Johannes Brahms
Anton Bruckner
Antonin Dvorak
*Gabriel Faure
*Cesar Franck
*Charles Gounod
Edvard Grieg
Modest Mussorgsky
*Jacques Offenbach
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Camille Saint-Saens
*Pablo de Sarasate
Bedrich Smetana
Johann Strauss II
*Josef Strauss
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
*Giuseppe Verdi
*Richard Wagner
*Henryk Wieniawski
Post-Romantic
*Isaac Albeniz
*Ferruccio Busoni
Claude Debussy
*Frederick Delius
*Paul Dukas
Edward Elgar
*George Enescu
Gustav Holst
*Leos Janacek
*Scott Joplin
*Edward MacDowell
Gustav Mahler
*Nikolai Medtner
*Carl Nielsen
*Giacomo Puccini
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Maurice Ravel
Ottorino Respighi
Erik Satie
Franz Schmidt
Alexander Scriabin
Jean Sibelius
*John Philip Sousa
Richard Strauss
Modernist (1905-1975)
*Leroy Anderson
*Samuel Barber
Bela Bartok
*Alban Berg
*Leonard Bernstein
*Benjamin Britten
Aaron Copland
*Maurice Durufle
*Duke Ellington
*Manuel de Falla
George Gershwin
*Paul Hindemith
Alan Hovhaness
*Charles Ives
Aram Khachaturian
*Zoltan Kodaly
*Darius Milhaud
*Carl Orff
*Francis Poulenc
Sergei Prokofiev
*Joaquin Rodrigo
*Arnold Schoenberg
Dimitri Shostakovich
*Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji
Igor Stravinsky
*Edgar Varese
*Ralph Vaughan Williams
*Heitor Villa-Lobos
*Anton Webern
Contemporary (1960-)
*John Adams
*Thomas Ades
*Malcom Arnold
*Milton Babbitt
*Luciano Berio
*Pierre Boulez
*John Cage
*Elliott Carter
*John Corigliano
*George Crumb
*Peter Maxwell Davies
*Morton Feldman
Philip Glass
*Osvaldo Golijov
Henryk Gorecki
*Sofia Gubaidulina
*Jennifer Higdon
*Paul Lansky
*Gyorgy Ligeti
*Witold Lutoslawski
*Oliver Messiaen
*Arvo Part
*Einojuhani Rautavaara
*Steve Reich
*Tan Dun
*Terry Riley
John Rutter
*Frederic Rzewski
*Peter Schickele
*Karlheinz Stockhausen
*Toru Takemitsu
*Michael Torke
*Joan Tower
*John Williams
*Iannis Xenakis
*Frank Zappa
*Ellen Taafe Zwilich
This should probably cover more ground and be a little less confusing, despite me doubling the list to such gargantuan proportions.
I won't fiddle with the opera list since that isn't my specialty.
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Posted: Mon Oct 31, 2005 4:12 pm
I'm not fond of the concept of splitting up eras (i.e. early romantic and high romantic, early Baroque and later Baroque) however, I probably should revise it with a post-romantic era, and a contemporary one, and make some additions to the list of composers. I'll take care of that later, gladly. I'm also not fond of the idea of puttting Beethoven exclusively in the classical era when it was him that kicked off the Romantic era and ideals, as arguably only his early work is strictly classical-based.
That did give me a rather large amount of material to work with, though. Thanks
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Posted: Tue Nov 01, 2005 10:31 am
Nice renaissance list, some of the names I didn't know.
Add Diego Ortiz to the list, I can't think of other names off the top of my head.
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Posted: Fri Feb 10, 2006 1:09 pm
by fat the greatest composer of anyone's time would have to be BACH!!!!
i love him but i hate him cause nhis fun stuff is tooo hard for me to play.. or play at the proper tempos
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the isle of the dead Crew
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Posted: Sat Mar 11, 2006 7:26 am
Harvested Sorrow I'm not fond of the concept of splitting up eras (i.e. early romantic and high romantic, early Baroque and later Baroque) however, I probably should revise it with a post-romantic era, and a contemporary one, and make some additions to the list of composers. I'll take care of that later, gladly. I'm also not fond of the idea of puttting Beethoven exclusively in the classical era when it was him that kicked off the Romantic era and ideals, as arguably only his early work is strictly classical-based. That did give me a rather large amount of material to work with, though. Thanks I suggest putting him right at the bottom of the classical list. As much debate has gone on about his role in the transition, he will always be a classical composer.
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Posted: Tue Mar 14, 2006 12:19 am
the isle of the dead Harvested Sorrow I'm not fond of the concept of splitting up eras (i.e. early romantic and high romantic, early Baroque and later Baroque) however, I probably should revise it with a post-romantic era, and a contemporary one, and make some additions to the list of composers. I'll take care of that later, gladly. I'm also not fond of the idea of puttting Beethoven exclusively in the classical era when it was him that kicked off the Romantic era and ideals, as arguably only his early work is strictly classical-based. That did give me a rather large amount of material to work with, though. Thanks I suggest putting him right at the bottom of the classical list. As much debate has gone on about his role in the transition, he will always be a classical composer. And this is where the disagreement comes in. I can't just throw him exclusively in the classical era, as I don't feel he could exclusively be labeled as classical era.
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Posted: Tue Mar 14, 2006 11:23 am
How about the "Beethoven era" which in a way makes some sense since the time in which Beethoven was alive, especially since the death of Mozart and before the appearance of Berlioz was a rather ambiguous time in terms of music styles. Classically grounded but not fully rational, and with greater expression, but not entirely Romantic.
Probably give it a different name, like the "Regency period" after the literary era of Jane Austen, or how I would put it as "Early Romantic" and lump anyone born after Mozart but before Wagner into that camp
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Posted: Sat Mar 18, 2006 5:04 am
How about not defining it? why is it so important to define who did what and when?
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Posted: Sat Mar 25, 2006 6:15 am
Liquid_Len How about not defining it? why is it so important to define who did what and when? Because if you don't define music as belonging to a period of time, then you're essentially saying that exists in a world of its own that is separate from the world it was created in. Music wasn't just written because it sounded pretty, you know, alot of composers had or chose to write music out of political or personal strife. Can I just say that putting Debussy in with the Post-Romantics is a sin? The Romantic period was all about expressing oneself and the world around you, Debussy was o_O Visionary. Ground breaking. Impressionist
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Posted: Thu Nov 16, 2006 3:36 pm
Perhaps his early works are considered post-romantic. Or perhaps I was just full of s**t at the time and put him in that period because of the time during which he lived. In my defense, I also put him in the modernism category. gonk
That damn thing needs serious revision, hopefully I'll get to it some day.
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