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Early
1000 -
1500

Gregorian Chant
Princeton Music Department

Gregorian Chant
Medieval.org

The Gregorian Association
London, England

A Singer's Guide to Bibliographic Resources for Medieval and Renaissance Music
Kirsti S. Thomas
Esther Mendes

Alfonso X El Sabio
1221 - 1284
Medieval.org

Hildegard von Bingen
(1098-1179)
Discography
Medieval.org

Hildegard von Bingen
Biography
Bison Publishing

The Life and Works of Hildegard von Bingen
By Kristina Lerman

Gilles Binchois
Masses
(1400-1460)
Medieval.org

Guillaume Dufay
(1397-1474)

Guillaume de Machaut
(1300-1377)
Medieval.org

Johannes Ciconia
(1370-1412)
New Albion Records

Oswald von Wolkenstein
(1377-1445)

Johannes Ockeghem
(1410-1497)

Baroque
1600s - 1750

Baroque Music Home Page

Early & Baroque Music Online Magazine
From Russia

Claudio Monteverdi
(1567-1643)
By Matthew Suntm.

Henry Purcell
(1659-1695)
The Purcell Project

Johann Sebastian Bach
(1685-1750)
Bach Society

Canons and Fugues of J. S. Bach
By Timothy A. Smith

J.S. Bach Biography
Bach Society

George Frederich Handel
(1685 - 1759)

Antonio Vivaldi
(1678-1741)
The Antonio Vivaldi Homepage

Johann Pachelbel
(1653-1706)

Georg Philipp Telemann
(1681-1767)
By Timothy A. Smith

Francesco Durante
(1684-1758)
By Pier
Raffaele Spen

Giuseppe
Domenico Scarlatti
(1685-1757)
At Classical
Music Pages

Johann Friedrich Fasch
(1688-1755)
International
Fasch Society

Johan Helmich Roman
(1694-1758)
By Magnus Svanfeldt

Classical
1750 - 1820

Ludwig van Beethoven
(1770-1827)
by Juan Carlos
Garelli, Ph. D.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
(1756-1791)
MusicaClassica

The New Franz Joseph Haydn Page
(1732-1809)

Gioacchino Rossini
(1792 - 1868)

Gioacchino Rossini
New York City Opera

Carl Maria von Weber
(1786-1826)
Polygram Records

Early
Romantic
1820 - 1850s

Romantic Music Period
Benedict Public Schools

Johannes Brahms
(1833-1856)

Franz Schubert
(1797-1828)
Austria Tourism Site

Felix Mendelssohn
(1809-1847)
The Florestan Trio

The Robert Schumann Page
(1810 - 1856)

Franz Liszt
(1811-1886)
by Matt Boynick.

Hector Berlioz
(1803-1869)
Caltech Music

Hector Berlioz
(1803-1869)
by Doug Asselberg

Frederic Chopin
(1810-1849)
Chopin Society
In Polish

Frederic Chopin
(1810-1849)
By Weber Piano

Mikhail Glinka
(1803-1857)
By Little Russia

Late Romantic
1850s - 1900s

Johannes Brahms
(1833-1897)

Anton Bruckner's HomePage
(1824-1896)

Richard Wagner Archive
(1813-1883)

World of Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
(1840-1893)

Edvard Grieg
(1843-1907)
Edvard Grieg Museum

Modest Mussorgsky
(1839-1881)

Gustav Mahler
(1860-1911)

Cesar Franck
(1822-1890)
Polygram Records

Jean Sibelius
(1865-1957)
The Sibelius Web Pages

Jean Sibelius
Biography
(1865-1957)
by Robert Layton

Giuseppe Verdi
(1813-1901)
At Verdiana

Edward MacDowell
(1860 - 1908)
By Jonathan
R. Hiller

Antonin Dvorak
(1841-1904)
Czech Classical
Music Masters

Giacomo Puccini
(1858-1924)
Il Centro Studi
In Italia

Giacomo Puccini
(1858-1924)
New York
City Opera

Richard Strauss
(1864-1949)
By David Meek

Alexander Borodin
(1833-1887)
Polygram Records

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
(1844-1908)
Opera Glass

Sergei Rachmaninoff
(1873-1943)
Lucid Cafe

Impressionism
1890 -
1915

Claude Debussy
(1862-1918)

Maurice Ravel
(1875-1937)
New York
City Opera

Modern
20th
Century

Igor Stravinsky
(1882-1971)
At Safe Haven

B�la Bart�k
(1881-1945)
Pawel's Composers

Arnold Schoenberg
(1874-1951)
By Duncan Vinson

Sergey Prokofiev
(1891-1953)
By Lionel Choi

Dmitrievich Shostakovich
(1906-1975)
Music under Soviet rule

Benjamin Britten
(1913-1976)
New York
City Opera

Ralph Vaughan Williams
(1872-1958)

Aaron Copland
(1900-1990)

George Gershwin
(1898-1937)

George Gershwin
Spanish Page

Leonard Bernstein
(1918 - 1990)
Library of Congress

The G�recki Phenomenon: Beyond the Marketing to the Music

Karlheinz Stockhausen (b.1928)
Official Karlheinz Stockhausen Home Page

Classical Composers Poster