The Greatest Composers

Johann Sebastian
Bach
Johann Sebastian Bach was born on March
21, 1685. A prolific German composer and
organist, his sacred and secular works for
choir, orchestra and solo instruments drew
together the strands of the baroque genre
and brought it to its ultimate maturity.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born on
January 27, 1756. He was a prolific and highly
influential composer of Classical music. His
enormous output of more than six hundred
compositions includes works that are widely
acknowledged as pinnacles of symphonic,
chamber, piano, operatic, and choral music.

Ludwig van Beethoven

German composer and pianist, born in 1770

(baptized 17 December 1770) in Bonn,
Germany and died 26 March 1827 in Vienna,
Austria, the eldest son of a singer in the
Kapelle of the Archbishop-Elector of Cologne
and grandson of the Archbishop's
Kapellmeister.

Richard Wagner
German composer, theatre director,
polemicist, and conductor of the romantic
period (born in Leipzig, May 22 1813 - died
in Venice, February 13 1883). He is primarily
known for his operas.

Joseph Haydn
Austrian composer (born 31/03/1732
in Rohrau, Austrian Empire - died
31/05/1809 in Vienna, Austrian
Empire). Older brother of Michael
Haydn.

Johannes Brahms
German composer, conductor and pianist.
He was born 7 May 1833 in Hamburg, Germany and
died 3 April 1897 in Vienna, Austria.

Franz Schubert
Austrian composer, born 31 January
1797 in Himmelpfortgrund (Vienna),
Austria and died 19 November 1828 in
Vienna, Austria.

Robert
Schumann
German composer, pianist, aesthete and
influential music critic, born 8 June 1810 in
Zwickau, Germany and died 29 July 1856 in
Endenich/Bonn, Germany. He was married
toClara Schumann.

Georg Friedrich Hndel

German Baroque composer, born 23 February
1685 in Halle/Saale, Germany, died 14 April
1759 in London, England, who spent most of
his adult life in England.

Felix
MendelssohnBartholdy
Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy
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German Romantic composer, pianist and
conductor, born February 3, 1809, in Hamburg,
died November 4, 1847, in Leipzig.

Antonn Dvok
Czech composer of romantic music
(classicist-romantic synthesis). Born
September 8, 1841 in Nelahozeves (Bohemia,
former Austrian Empire), died May 1, 1904
in Prague (Bohemia, former AustroHungarian Empire). He employed the idioms of the folk music of Moravia
and his native Bohemia. His works include symphonies, symphonic

Franz Liszt
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Hungarian composer, conductor, teacher and
virtuoso pianist of the 19th century born 22
October 1811 in Raiding (formerly Doborjan),
Kingdom of Hungary (today Austria) and died 31
July 1886 in Bayreuth, Germany.

Frdric Chopin
Polish composer and pianist, born 22 February
or 1 March 1810 in elazowa Wola, Poland and
died 17 October 1849 Paris, France.

Igor Stravinsky
Russian composer, pianist and conductor
(born June 17, 1882, Oranienbaum, Russia
- died April 6, 1971, New York City, USA).

Giuseppe Verdi
Italian composer, born 10 October 1813 in Le
Roncole near Busseto, First French Empire
(today Italy) and died 27 January 1901 in
Milan, Italy.

Gustav Mahler
Austrian composer and conductor.
He was born 7 July 1860 in Kalischt, Bohemia
(today Kalit, Czech Republic) and died 18 May
1911 in Vienna, Austria.

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