Renaissance & Baroque Music Chronology: Composers
[born 1701-1792]
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Composers (chronological)
[ Abelard
| Hildegard v. Bingen
| Léonin
| Walter v. d. Vogelweide
| Pérotin
| [1201]
| Adam de la Halle
| Vitry
| Machaut
| [1301]
| Landini
| Power
| Ciconia
| Dunstaple
| Du Fay
| Binchois
| [1401]
| Paumann
| Ockeghem
| Morton
| Tinctoris
| Busnois
| Isaac
| Josquin
| Finck
| Hayne v. Ghizeghem
| Agricola
| Frye
| Compère
| Obrecht
| Mouton
| Hofhaimer
| la Rue
| Brumel
| Fayrfax
| Davy
| Cornysh
| P. de Escobar
| Enzina
| Cara
| Peñalosa
| Tromboncino
| Verdelot
| Janequin
| Aston
| Senfl
| Festa
| Taverner
| Sermisy
| Willaert
| Gombert
| J. Walter
| Morales
| Milán
| [1501]
| Arcadelt
| Tye
| Tallis
| Mudarra
| Clemens non Papa
| Manchicourt
| Cabezón
| Ortiz
| Sheppard
| Rore
| Zarlino
| Monte
| Cavazzoni
| Palestrina
| Guerrero
| Le Jeune
| Porta
| Lassus
| A. Gabrieli
| C. Merulo
| Striggio
| Wert
| Byrd
| G. Caccini
| Victoria
| Cavalieri
| Vecchi
| Marenzio
| G. Gabrieli
| Morley
| Gesualdo
| Sweelinck
| Bull
| Dowland
| Monteverdi 1567-1612, 1513-1643
| Banchieri
| S. Rossi
| Prætorius
| Wilbye
| Ferrabosco
| Weelkes
| Gibbons
| Frescobaldi
| Schütz
| Schein
| F. Caccini
| Scheidt
| Jenkins
| Merula
| Buonamente
| Marini
| H. Lawes
| L. Rossi
| [1601]
| W. Lawes
| Cavalli
| Kittel
| Carissimi
| Froberger
| Strozzi
| Legrenzi
| Cambert
| Locke
| Lully
| Buxtehude
| Stradella
| Charpentier
| Biber
| Blow
| J.J. Walther
| Muffat
| J. Pachelbel
| Corelli
| Marais
| de Lalande
| Torelli
| Purcell
| A. Scarlatti
| Fux
| Campra
| Fischer
| Élisabeth-Claude Jacquet de la Guerre
| Rebel
| Montéclair
| Lotti
| F. Couperin
| Caldara
| Bononcini
| Albinoni
| Keiser
| Vivaldi
| Zelenka
| Mattheson
| Telemann
| Heinichen
| Graupner
| Rameau
| J.G. Walther
| J.S. Bach
| D. Scarlatti
| Händel
| B. Marcello
| Weiss
| Geminiani
| Boismortier
| Tartini
| Roman
| Locatelli
| Leclair
| Quantz
| Hasse
| [1701]
| Sammartini
| J.G. Graun
| C.H. Graun
| Galuppi
| Pergolesi
| W.F. Bach
| Boyce
| Gluck
| C.P.E. Bach
| J.W.A. Stamitz
| L. Mozart
| Soler
| Haydn
| Gossec
| J.C. Bach
| Ditters von Dittersdorf
| Grétry
| Boccherini
| C. Stamitz
| Salieri
| Clementi
| Viotti
| W.A. Mozart
| Beethoven
| Reicha
| Hummel
| Giuliani
| Spohr
| Weber
| Rossini ]
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Alphabetical Index ]
Giovanni Battista Sammartini (1701-1775)
Johann Gottlieb Graun (1702/3-1771)
Carl Heinrich Graun (1703/4-1759)
1755: Der Tod Jesu
Baldassare Galuppi (1706-1785)
Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (1710-1736)
1735: La serva padrona (Rome).
1752: La serva padrona, Paris.
Wilhelm Friedemann Bach (1710-1784)
William Boyce (1711-1779)
1755: Appointed Master of the King's Music at Court of George II, London.
Christoph Gluck (1714-1787)
1737: Gluck was engaged to play in Prince Melzi's orchestra in Milan.
1745: Was invited to England to become composer for the King's Theatre, where he composed the opera La Caduta de Giganti and a pasticchio Piramo e Tisbe.
1755-1761: Gluck in Vienna.
1762: Orfeo ed Euridice performed in Vienna.
1767: Alceste.
1774: Orphée et Euridice produced in Paris.
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714-1788)
1714: Born 8 March, Weimar.
1723: Became a student at Thomasschule, Leipzig.
1740: Entered service, as harpsichordist, of Frederick the Great of Prussia, Berlin.
1742: Prussian Sonatas.
1744: Married Johanna Maria Dannemann.
1753: Versuch über die wahre Art, das Clavier zu spielen, vol. I.
1758: Russian troops threaten Berlin during the Seven Years War (1756-1763); Bach briefly fled Berlin.
1762: Versuch über die wahre Art, das Clavier zu spielen, vol. II.
1767: Succeeds Telemann as Kantor of the Latinschule and Music Director of the five principal churches, Hamburg (on death of Telemann).
1788: Buried 14 December in the Michaeliskirche crypt.
Johann Wenzel Anton Stamitz (1717-1757)
1741: Became violinist in the orchestra at Mannheim.
1745: Appointed director of the Mannheim orchestra.
Leopold Mozart (1719-1787)
1756: Versuch einer gründlichen Violinschule.
1757: Hofkomponist at court of the Archbishop of Salzburg.
1763: Vice Kapellmeister at court of the Archbishop of Salzburg.
Antonio Soler (1729-1783)
Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
1741: Choirboy, St. Stephens, Vienna.
1759: Enters service of Count Morzin, Lukavec.
1761: Becomes vice-Kapellmeister at Court of Prince Paul Anton Esterhàzy.
1766: Becomes Kapellmeister at Court of Prince Esterházy.
1768: New Opera House at Eszterháza opened, with performance of Haydn's Lo speziale.
1790: London.
1795: London.
François-Joseph Gossec (1734-1829)
Johann Christian Bach (1735-1782)
1762: Moves from Milan to London.
Karl Ditters von Dittersdorf (1739-1799)
André-Ernest-Modeste Grétry (1741-1813)
Luigi Boccherini (1743-1805)
Carl Stamitz (1745-1801)
Antonio Salieri (1750-1825)
Muzio Clementi (1752-1832)
1752: Born 23 January 1752, Rome.
1760: Became organist at San Lorenzo, Damaso.
1766: Went to England as servant (musician) to Peter Beckford.
1774: Settled in London, where he performed as harpsichordist and harpist, and worked as music director at the King's Theatre Haymarket.
1780-1785: Toured throughout Europe as performer.
1781: Visited Vienna to perform for the Emperor Joseph II, and engaged in a musical contest with Mozart.
1785-1802: Performed and conducted often in London.
1798: With partner John Longman, formed the company Longman, Clementi & Co., instrument makers and music publishers.
1801: Introduction to the Art of Playing on the Piano Forte.
1802-1810: Often visited Europe to demonstrate Clementi pianos, in 1802 with his student John Field.
1804: Married Caroline Lehmann.
1811: Remarried, after death of first wife, Emma Gisborne.
1817: Gradus ad Parnassum, Vol. I, a collection of keyboard music.
1832: Died at Evesham, Worcestershire, 10 March; buried at Westminster Abbey.
Giovanni Battista Viotti (1755-1824)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
1763: Performed at Versailles.
1764: Performed in London.
1769: Konzertmeister to the Archbishop of Salzburg.
1779: Organist to the Archbishop of Salzburg.
1781: Settled in Vienna.
1785: Published six quartets, Op. 33, dedicated to Haydn.
1787: Don Giovanni.
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
17 December 1770: Baptised in Bonn.
1778: First public performance as a pianist.
1779: Began studies with Christian Gottlob Neefe.
ca. 1782: Began serving as deputy of Neefe as court organist.
1799: Symphony no. 1.
1800: Composed Pathétique and Moonlight sonatas.
1801: Performance of The Creatures of Prometheus (ballet).
1802: "Heiligenstadt Testament".
1805: First performance of Fidelio, Vienna.
1809: Archduke Rudolf, Prince Lobkowitz, and Prince Kinsky granted Beethoven an annuity.
1814: Fidelio revived.
1824: First performance of Symphony no. 9.
26 March 1827: Died in Vienna.
Antonin Reicha (1770-1836)
Johann Nepomuk Hummel (1778-1837)
Mauro Giuliani (1781-1829)
Ludwig Spohr (1784-1859)
Carl Maria von Weber (1786-1826)
1800 November 24: Das Waldmädchen (Das stumme Waldmädchen) (libretto by C. von Steinsberg) first performance in Freiburg, Saxony.
1801-1802: Perter Schmoll und seine Nachbarn (libretto by J. Türk) composed.
1804-1805 Rübezahl (libretto by J.G. Rhode) composed.
1808-1810: Silvana (libretto by F.C. Hiemer) composed.
1810 Sept 16: Silvana first performance in Frankfurt.
1810-1811: Composition of Abu Hassan (libretto by Hiemer).
1811 June 4: Abu Hassan was performed for the first time in Hoftheater, Munich.
1817-1821: Der Freischütz (libretto by J.F. Kind) composed in Berlin.
1821 June 18: Der Freischütz: Schauspielhaus, Berlin.
1823 October 25: Euryanthe (libretto by H. von Chézy) first performance Kärntnertor, Wein.
1825-1826: Oberon (libretto by J.R. Planché) composed in Berlin.
1826 April 12: Oberon first performance in London conducted by Weber himself.
Gioachino Antonio Rossini (1792-1868)
1792: Born 29 February in Pesaro.
1804: Sang role of the boy Adolfo in Ferdinando Paer's Camilla.
1804: Composed sic sonatas for string ensemble.
1806: Enrolls in Liceo Musicale, Bologna.
1815: Appointed musical director of the royal theatres, Naples.
1817: La gazza ladra.
1822: Married soprano Isabella Colbran.
1824: Appointed musical director of the Théâtre Italien, Paris.
1825: Composed Il vaggio a Reims for the coronation of Charles X as King of France.
1828: Le comte Ory.
1829: Guillaume Tell.
1837: Moved back to Italy.
1855: Returns to Paris.
1868: Died 13 November, Paris.
Index of Composers
| A: |
| Abelard | Adam de la Halle | Agricola | Albinoni | Arcadelt | Aston |
| B: |
| Bach, C.P.E. | Bach, J.C. | Bach, J.S. | Bach, W.F. | Banchieri | Beethoven | Biber | Binchois | Blow | Boccherini | Boismortier | Bononcini | Boyce | Brumel | Bull | Buonamente | Busnois | Buxtehude | Byrd |
| C: |
| Cabezón | Caccini, F. | Caccini, G. | Caldara
| Cambert | Campra | Cara | Carissimi | Cavalieri | Cavalli | Cavazzoni | Charpentier | Ciconia | Clemens non Papa
| Clementi
| Compère | Corelli | Cornysh | Couperin, F. |
| D-E: |
| Davy | de Lalande | Ditters von Dittersdorf | Dowland | Du Fay | Dunstaple | Encina | P. de Escobar |
| F: |
| Fayrfax | Ferrabosco
| Festa | Finck | Fischer | Frescobaldi | Froberger | Frye | Fux |
| G: |
| Gabrieli, A. | Gabrieli, G. | Galuppi | Geminiani | Gesualdo | Gibbons | Giuliani | Gluck | Gombert | Gossec | Graun, C.H. | Graun, J.G. | Grétry | Guerrero |
| H-K: |
| Händel | Hasse | Haydn | Hayne v. Ghizeghem | Heinichen | Hildegard v. Bingen | Hofhaimer | Hummel | Isaac
| Graupner | Jacquet de la Guerre | Janequin | Jenkins | Josquin | Keiser | Kittel |
| L: |
| Landini | la Rue | Lassus | Lawes, H. | Lawes, W. | Leclair
| Legrenzi | Le Jeune | Léonin | Locatelli | Locke | Lotti | Lully |
| M: |
| Machaut | Manchicourt | Marais | Marcello, B. | Marenzio | Marini | Mattheson | Merula | Merulo, C. | Milán | Monte | Montéclair | Monteverdi 1567-1612, 1513-1643 | Morales | Morley | Morton | Mouton | Mozart, L. | Mozart, W.A. | Mudarra | Muffat |
| N-Q: |
| Obrecht | Ockeghem | Ortiz | Pachelbel, J. | Palestrina | Paumann | Peñalosa | Pergolesi | Pérotin | Porta | Power | Prætorius | Purcell | Quantz |
| R: |
| Rameau | Rebel | Reicha | Roman | Rore | Rossi, L. | Rossi, S. | Rossini |
| S: |
| Sammartini | Salieri | Scarlatti, A. | Scarlatti, D. | Scheidt | Schein | Schütz | Senfl | Sermisy | Sheppard | Soler | Spohr | Stamitz, C. | Stamitz, J.W.A. | Stradella | Striggio | Strozzi | Sweelinck |
| T-U: |
| Tallis | Tartini | Taverner
| Telemann | Tinctoris
| Torelli | Tromboncino | Tye |
| V: |
| Vecchi | Verdelot | Victoria | Viotti | Vitry | Vivaldi |
| W-Z: |
| Walter, J. | Walter v. d. Vogelweide | Walther, J.G. | Walther, J.J. | Weelkes | Weber | Weiss | Wert
| Wilbye
| Willaert | Zarlino | Zelenka |
Last updated: 24 May 2008.
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