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Composers/Composers

Composer timeline

Overlapping life-spans of the canon, with documented teacher and influence lines.

Legend

  • Baroque
  • Classical
  • Romantic
  • Modern
  • Taught
  • Influenced
  1. 16851759

    Handel

  2. 16851750

    Johann Sebastian Bach

  3. 17321809

    Joseph Haydn

  4. 17521832

    Muzio Clementi

  5. 17561791

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  6. 17701827

    Ludwig van Beethoven

  7. 17911857

    Carl Czerny

  8. 17971828

    Franz Schubert

  9. 18061874

    Friedrich Burgmüller

  10. 18091847

    Felix Mendelssohn

  11. 18101849

    Frédéric Chopin

  12. 18101856

    Robert Schumann

  13. 18111886

    Franz Liszt

  14. 18191900

    Charles-Louis Hanon

  15. 18331897

    Johannes Brahms

  16. 18451924

    Gabriel Fauré

  17. 18621918

    Claude Debussy

  18. 18661925

    Erik Satie

  19. 18681917

    Scott Joplin

Composer timeline — Bristol Piano