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The Musical Epochs

Here are the major musical epochs and some of their most important composers.

Middle Ages

P�rotin
Guillaume de Machaut

Renaissance (1400-1600)

Josquin Desprez
Orlande de Lassus
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina

Baroque (1600-1750)

Early Baroque

Claudio Monteverdi
Heinrich Sch�tz

Late Baroque

Antonio Vivaldi
Johann Sebastian Bach
George Frideric Handel

Classic (1750-1825)

Joseph Haydn
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Ludwig van Beethoven
Franz Schubert

Romantic (1825-1900)

Richard Wagner
Johannes Brahms
Anton Bruckner
Piotr Tchaikovsky
Gustav Mahler
Richard Strauss

Modern (1900-1945)

Claude Debussy
Arnold Sch�nberg
Alban Berg
Anton von Webern
Bel� Bart�k
Igor Stravinsky

Since 1945

John Cage
Luigi Nono
Witold Lutoslawski

This project was created by Ahmed Azab.
Since �2001

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