MEET THE GREAT COMPOSERS

Introducing you to some of the greatest composers who ever lived.

Recreate their images in JIG SAW form and at the same time learn about their lives and works. You will find that meeting each one in person, as it were, will help you to remember something about them.

You can also listen to their music whilst you read and learn.

composers of the BAROQUE ERA

Baroque composers C1600-1750

J S Bach 1685-1750

Arcangelo Corelli 1653-1713

Francois Couperin 1668-1733

Handel 1685-1759

Jean-Baptiste Lully 1632-1687

Johann Pachalbel 1653-1706

Giovanni Battista Pergolesi 1710-1736

Henry Purcell 1659-1695

Jean-Philippe Rameau 1683-1764

Giuseppe Domenico Scarlatti 1685-1757

composers of the CLASSICAL ERA

Classical composers C1750-1820

Arnold1740-1802	Gluck1714-1787
Beethoven 1770-1827
Boccherini1743-1805	Haydn1732-1809
Clementi1752-1832	Hummel1778-1837
Czerny1794-1857	Mozart1756-1791
Diabelli1781-1858	Rossini1792-1868
Dussek1760-1812	Schubert1797-1828
Field1782-1837	Weber1786-1826

composers of the ROMANTIC ERA 1820-1900

EARLY ROMANTIC

Early Romantic composers born C1800-1850

Giacomo Meyerbeer 1791 - 1864	Smetana 1824-1884
Glinka 1804-1857	Strauss 2nd 1825-1899
Burgmuller 1806-1874	Rubinstein 1829-1894
Mendelssohn 1807-1847	Borodin 1833-1887
Chopin 1810-1849	Brahms 1833-1897
Schumann 1810-1856	Cui 1835-1918
Liszt 1811-1886	Bizet 1838-1875
Alkan 1813-1888	Tchaikowsky 1840-1893
Verdi 1813-1901	Dvorak 1841-1904
Wagner 1813-1883	Grieg 1843-1907
Heller 1814-1888	Rimsky-Korsakov1844-1908
Franck 1822-1890	Faure 1845-1924

LATE ROMANTIC

Late Romantic composers born C1850-1900

Debussy 1862-1918	Janacek 1854-1928
Delius 1862-1934	Puccini 1858-1924
Sibelius 1865-1957	Granados 1867-1916
Busoni 1866-1924	Mahler 1860-1911
Satie 1866-1925	Elgar 1857-1934
Scriabin 1872-1915	Albeniz 1860-1909

composers of the 20th CENTURY

20th Century composers 1900-2000+

Rachmaninov 1873-1943	Britten 1913-1976
Ravel 1875-1938	Vaughan Williams 1872-1958
Bartok 1881-1945	Gershwin 1898-1937
Stravinsky 1882-1971	Copland 1900-1990
Prokofiev 1891-1953	Villa-Lobos 1887-1959
Schoenberg 1874-1951	Stockhausen 1928-2007
Elgar 1857-1934	Ives 1874-1954
Poulenc 1899-1963	Boulez 1925-
Milhaud 1892-1974	Philip Glass 1937-
Hindemith 1895-1963	Arvo Part 1935-
Shostakovich 1906-1975	Terry Riley 1935-
Messaien 1908-1992	John Taverner 1944-
Turina 1882-1949	Steve Reich 1936-

 

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