Gustav Mahler

 was an Austro-Bohemian
Romantic composer, and one of
the leading conductors of his
generation. As a composer he
acted as a bridge between the
19th-century Austro-German
tradition and the modernism of
the early 20th century.
Ex: Symphony No.3 (The Fifith)
Ruckert - Lieder
 Franz Liszt
 was a Hungarian composer,
virtuoso pianist, conductor, and
teacher of the Romantic period.
With a diverse body of work
spanning more than six decades,
he is considered to be one of
the most prolific and influential
composers of his era, and his
piano works continue to be
widely performed and recorded.
Ex: La Campanella
Hungarian Rhapsodies
Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky
 was a Russian composer and
conductor with French
citizenship and United States
citizenship. He is widely
considered one of the most
important and influential
composers of the 20th
century and a pivotal figure
in modernist music.
Ex: The Rite Of Spring
Petrushka
 Edward William Elgar
 1st Baronet, OM, GCVO was an
English composer, many of
whose works have entered the
British and international classical
concert repertoire.
Ex: Cello Concerto
Enigma Variations
Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn
Bartholdy
 widely known as Felix
Mendelssohn, was a German
composer, pianist, organist and
conductor of the early Romantic
period. Mendelssohn's
compositions include
symphonies, concertos, piano
music, organ music and chamber
music.
Ex: Wedding March
Violin Concerto
 Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff
 was a Russian composer, virtuoso
pianist, and conductor.
Rachmaninoff is widely considered
one of the finest pianists of his day
and, as a composer, one of the last
great representatives of
Romanticism in Russian classical
music.
Ex: Piano Concerto No. 2
Preludes in C-Sharp Minor
 Joseph Maurice Ravel
 was a French composer, pianist and
conductor. He is often associated
with Impressionism along with his
elder contemporary Claude
Debussy, although both composers
rejected the term. In the 1920s and
1930s Ravel was internationally
regarded as France's greatest living
composer.
Ex: Bolero
Piano Concerto In G major
 Carl Phillip Emanuel Bach
 was the second surviving son of
Johann Sebastian Bach, the
patriarch of Western music’s
unstoppable dynasty.
Frustrated by the old Baroque
restraints, CPE carved out his
own sound, noted for its quick
changes in mood, harmony and
dynamic shade.
Ex: Solfeggietto
Magnificant
 Edvard Grieg
 was a Norwegian composer and
pianist. He is widely considered one
of the leading Romantic era
composers, and his music is part of
the standard classical repertoire
worldwide. His use of Norwegian
folk music in his own compositions
brought the music of Norway to
fame, as well as helping to develop
a national identity.
Ex: Peer Gynt
Morning Mood
 Ridolfo Luigi Boccherini
 was an Italian composer and cellist
of the Classical era whose music
retained a courtly and galante style
even while he matured somewhat
apart from the major European
musical centers.
Ex: String Quintet In E major, Op.
11, No. 5
Stabat Mater
 Niccolò Paganini
 was an Italian violinist and
composer. He was the most
celebrated violin virtuoso of his
time, and left his mark as one of the
pillars of modern violin technique.
His 24 Caprices for Solo Violin Op. 1
are among the best known of his
compositions and have served as an
inspiration for many prominent
composers.
Ex: La Campanella
24 Caprices For Solo Violin
 Gioachino Rossini
 was an Italian composer who gained
fame for his 39 operas, although he
also wrote many songs, some
chamber music and piano pieces,
and some sacred music. He set new
standards for both comic and
serious opera before retiring from
large-scale composition while still in
his thirties, at the height of his
popularity.
Ex: The Barber Of Seville
La Cenerentola
 Richard Wagner
 was a German composer, theatre
director, polemicist, and
conductor who is chiefly known
for his operas (or, as some of his
mature works were later known,
"music dramas"). Unlike most
opera composers, Wagner wrote
both the libretto and the music
for each of his stage works.
Ex: Tristand Und Isolde
Die Walkure
 Johann Sebastian Bach

• Johann Sebastian Bach was a

German composer and musician of
the late baroque period.

Ex: Air on the G String

Brandenburg Concertos
 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
 was a prolific and influential
composer of the Classical
period. Despite his short life, h
is rapid pace of composition
resulted in more than 800
works of virtually every
Western classical genre of his
time.
Ex: The Magic Flute
Requieme
 Frederic Chopin
•was a Polish composer and virtuoso
pianist of the Romantic period, who wrote
primarily for solo piano. He has maintained
worldwide renown as a leading musician of his
era, one whose "poetic genius was based on a
professional technique that was without equal
in his generation"
Ex: Fantaisie-Impromptu
Nocturne in E-flat major,Op.9,No.2
 Wilhelm Richard Wagner
 was a German composer, theatre
director, polemicist, and conductor
who is chiefly known for his operas.
Unlike most opera composers, Wagner
wrote both the libretto and the music
for each of his stage works.
Ex: Die Walkure
Lohengrin
Ludwig van Beethoven
 was a German composer and pianist.
He is one of the most revered figures
in the history of Western music; his
works rank among the most performed
of the classical music repertoire and
span the transition from the Classical
period to the Romantic era in classical
music
Ex: Symphony No.5
Symphony No.9
 George Frideric Handel
 was a German-born English
composer of the late Baroque era,
noted particularly for his operas,
oratorios, and instrumental
compositions. He wrote the most
famous of all oratorios,
Ex: Messiah
Music for the Royal
 Antiono Vivaldi
 Along with Johann Sebastian Bach and
George Frideric Handel, Vivaldi ranks
amongst the greatest Baroque
composers and his influence during his
lifetime was widespread across
Europe, giving origin to many imitators
and admirers. He pioneered many
developments in orchestration, violin
technique and programmatic music.
Ex: The four Seasons
Gloria
 Giuseppe Verdi
 Giuseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi
was an Italian composer best known
for his operas. He was born near
Busseto to a provincial family of
moderate means, receiving a
musical education with the help of a
local patron.
Ex: La Traviata
Aida
ffF

Franz
Joseph
 was an Austrian composer of the
Classical period. He was instrumental in
Haydn
the development of chamber music such
as the string quartet and piano trio. His
contributions to musical form have led
him to be called "Father of the
Symphony" and "Father of the String
quartet".
Ex: Symphony No. 94
Haydn: The creation
 Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
 Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky was a
Russian composer of the
Romantic period. He was the
first Russian composer whose
music would make a lasting
impression internationally
Ex: Swan Lake
Symphony No. 5
 Johannes Brahms
 Johannes Brahms was a German
composer, pianist, and conductor
of the mid-Romantic period. Born
in Hamburg into a Lutheran family,
he spent much of his professional
life in Vienna.
Ex: Symphony No. 1
Wiegenlied
 Claude Debussy
 The French composer Claude
Debussy is often regarded as the
father of modern classical music.
Debussy developed new and complex
harmonies and musical structures
that evoke comparisons to the art of
his contemporary Impressionist and
Symbolist painters and writer.
Ex: Clair de lune
La Mer