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 Classical Music History Map

Music lovers, students, can gain a broad perspective of classical music history with this beautiful art print. Time lines are used to show the relative creative periods of the great composers with typical popular works. The great thinkers and philosophers that created the environment of each period are shown in their historical positions. A liberal arts course on a print!

Enjoyment of individual works or music of any composer will be enhanced by sampling other music of the same period as well as earlier and later works. The Musical History Map© serves as a simple graphic guide to a representative number of classical composers with typical works indicated. A music appreciation course based on this map would highlight the special historical significance of Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms, Wagner, and Richard Strauss. Generally, judged by the estimated number of available recordings, the 25 most popular composers also include Schubert, Tchaikovsky, Haydn, Chopin, Vivaldi, Debussy, Ravel, Liszt, Schumann, Prokofiev, Dvorak, Handel, Verdi, Mendelssohn, Stravinsky, Rachmaninoff, Sibelius, Shostakovich, and Mahler.

The Musical History Map© contains not only classical music, but reference on a timeline to the following:

IDEAS & EVENTS

Pythagoras 581-497 B.C. – Physics of Harmonic Series
Socrates 469-399 B.C.
Plato 427-347 B.C.
Zeno the Stoic 336-264 B.C.
Aquinas 1225-1274 A.D.
Luther 1483-1546 – Luther’s 95 Theses Wittenberg- 1517

Reformation
Age of Reason
Cartesian-Newtonian World—The Enlightenment
Romantic Idealism
Pragmatism
Logical Empiricism
Existentialism
Francis Bacon 1561-1626 Novum Organum
Scientific Theory—Philosophy of Empiricism
Voltaire 1694-1778 Father of the French Revolution; Candide
Hegel 1770-1831- Thesis, Antithesis, Synthesis
Schopenhauer 1788-1860 Romantic Idealism, The World as Will
Bismarck 1815-1898 Prussian Dominance
Bertrand Russell 1872-1970
Franco-Prussian War 1870-1871
Wittgenstein 1889-1951 Tractatus
Descartes 1596-1650 Modern Math—“Cogito ergo sum”
Stradivari 1644-1737
Rousseau 1712-1778 Intuition vs. Intellect; Heloise
French Revolution-1789 “Liberte, Egalite, Fraternite”
Darwin 1809-1882 Origin of the Species
Friedrich Nietzsche 1844-1900 Zarathustra, Genealogy of Morals
Freud 1856-1939 Psychoanalysis
Sartre 1905-1980 Existentialism
Newton—Modern Physics 1642-1727
Berkeley 1685-1753 Idealism
David Hume 1711-1776 Treatise on Human Nature
Napoleonic Era 1800-1815
Einstein 1879-1955 Theory of Relativity
Russian Revolution 1917
Leibnitz 1646-1716 “Best of all possible worlds”
Immanuel Kant 1724-1804 The Critique of Pure Reason—1785, German Idealism
Kierkegaard 1813-1855 Christian Existentialism
Locke 1632-1704 Tabula rasa
Cristofori 1655-1731 Planoforte—1709
Goethe 1749-1832 Faust
William James 1842-1910 Pragmatism
World War I 1914-1918 End of Victorian Age
World War II 1939-1945

The Musical History Map© contains 88 of the world’s greatest composers featured with their masterworks:

BAROQUE MUSIC COMPOSERS 1600-1750
Albinoni 1671-1750 Adagio in G
Buxtehude 1637-1707 Organ Music
Corelli 1653-1713 Concerti Grossi
Couperin 1668-1733 Pieces de Clavecin
Charpentier 1636-1704 Motets
J.S. Bach 1685-1750 Brandenburg Concerti, 1721; Magnificat in D, 1723; Goldberg Variations, 1742
Lully 1632-1687 Atys
Handel 1685-1759 Messiah
Pachelbel 1653-1706 Kanon and Gigue
Purcell 1653-1706 Dido and Aeneas
Rameau 1683-1764 Harpsichord Works
D. Scarlatti 1685-1757 Keyboard Sonatas
Telemann 1681-1767 Concerti, Sonatas
Vivaldi 1678-1741 The Four Seasons

CLASSICAL MUSIC COMPOSERS 1750-1825
Boccherini 1743-1805 Cello Concerti
Cherubini 1760-1842 Medea
C.P.E. Bach 1714-1788 Hamburg Symphonies
Beethoven 1770-1827 Eroica Symphony, 1804; Choral Symphony, 1824; Pathetique Sonata, 1799; Moonlight Sonata, 1802
Haydn 1732-1809 Symphony #104
M. Haydn 1737-1806 Trumpet Concerto in D
Mozart 1756-1791 Don Giovanni, 1787; Symphonies #39-41, 1788
Clementi 1752-1832 Piano Sonatas
Stamitz 1745-1801 Flute Concerto

ROMANTIC MUSIC COMPOSERS 1825-1900
Borodin 1833-1887 Prince Igor
Berlioz 1803-1869 Symphonie Fantastique
Dvorak 1841-1904 New World Symphony
Brahms 1833-1897 Symphonies #1-4, 1876-1885
Bruckner 1824-1896 Symphony #9
Chopin 1810-1849 Piano Music
Cesar Franck 1822-1890 Symphony in D Minor
Liszt 1811-1886 Les Preludes
Gounod 1818-1893 Faust
Offenbach 1819-1880 Tales of Hoffman
Smetana 1824-1884 Ma Vlast
Spohr 1784-1859 String Quartets
Tchaikovsky 1840-1893 Romeo and Juliet
Schubert 1797-1828 Unfinished Symphony; Great C major Symphony
Schumann 1810-1856 Piano Concerto
Mendelssohn 1809-1847 Italian Symphony
Rossini 1792-1868 Barber of Seville
Verdi 1813-1901 Aida
Wagner 1813-1883 Der Ring des Nibelungen, 1869-1876
Weber 1786-1826 Der Freischutz

20TH CENTURY COMPOSERS 1900-PRESENT
Boulez 1925- Notations for Orchestra
Barber 1910-1981 Piano Concerto
Bloch 1880-1959 Schelomo
Corigliano 1938- Symphony #1
Berg 1885-1935 Violin Concerto/Wozzeck
Britten 1913-1976 Peter Grimes
Copland 1900-1990 Appalachian Spring
Bartok 1881-1945 Concerto for Orchestra
Glass 1937- Einstein on the Beach
Delius 1862-1934 Aquarelles
Mahler 1860-1911 Symphony #1 “Titan”
Hindemith 1895-1963 Mathis der Maler
Puccini 1858-1924 Tosca
Piston 1894-1976 Symphony #2
Grieg 1843-1907 Piano Concerto
Debussy 1862-1918 La Mer
Harris 1898-1979 Symphony #3
Nielsen 1865-1931 Symphony #4 “inextinguishable”
Hanson 1896-1981 Romantic Symphony
Prokofiev 1891-1953 Classical Symphony
Rachmaninoff 1873-1943 Piano Concerti #2 & 3
Gershwin 1898-1937 Rhapsody in Blue
Ives 1874-1954 Unanswered Question
Villa-Lobos 1887-1959 Bachianas Brasileiras
Shostakovich 1906-1975 Fifth Symphony
Respighi 1879-1936 Pines of Rome
Bernstein 1918-1990 West Side Story
Rimsky-Korsakov 1844-1908 Scheherazade
Ravel 1875-1937 Bolero, La Valse
Satie 1866-1925 Trois Gymnopedies
Sibelius 1865-1957 Symphonies #1 & 2
Scriabin 1872-1915 Symphony #3
Stravinsky 1882-1971 Le Sacre du Printemps
Schoenberg 1874-1951 OP 23-First atonal piece, Transfigured Night
Sessions 1896-1985 Symphony #3
Richard Strauss 1864-1949 Der Rosenkavalier, 1910
Webern 1883-1945 Five Pieces for Orchestra
Vaughan Williams 1872-1958 Fantasia on a Theme by Tallis
Saint-Saens 1835-1921 Symphony #3 “Organ”