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This is a list of classical music composers by era. [1] [2] [3] [4] With the exception of the overview, the Modernist era has been combined with the Postmodern ...
Chronological lists of classical composers list composers of classical music in chronological order, either organized by era or style, or by nationality. By era or style [ edit ]
This is a list of composers of the Classical music era, roughly from 1730 to 1820.Prominent classicist composers [1] [2] [3] include Christoph Willibald Gluck, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, Johann Stamitz, Joseph Haydn, Johann Christian Bach, Antonio Salieri, Muzio Clementi, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Luigi Boccherini, Ludwig van Beethoven, Niccolò Paganini, Gioachino Rossini and Franz Schubert.
Overture (from French ouverture, lit. "opening") is a music instrumental introduction to a ballet, opera, or oratorio in the 17th century. [1] During the early Romantic era, composers such as Beethoven and Mendelssohn composed overtures which were independent, self-existing, instrumental, programmatic works that foreshadowed genres such as the symphonic poem.
Date ranges of classical music eras are therefore somewhat arbitrary, and are only intended as approximate guides. Scholars of music history do not agree on the start and end dates, and in many cases disagree whether particular years should be chosen at all. The 20th century has exact dates, but is strictly a calendar based unit of time.
Franz Xaver Richter (1709–1789), Austro-Moravian singer, violinist, composer, conductor, music theoretician, and composer of at least 69 symphonies; Christoph Schaffrath (1709–1763), German composer of at least 5 symphonies; Thomas Arne (1710–1778), British composer of roughly a dozen symphonies originally written as overtures to stage works
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Gustave Charpentier (1860–1956) French composer famous for a single opera, Louise, set in a working class district of Paris. [51] Claude Debussy (1862–1918) Like Beethoven, Debussy finished only one opera, but his setting of Maeterlinck's Symbolist play Pelléas et Mélisande is a key work in 20th century music drama. [52]