Composers/Composers
Composer timeline
Overlapping life-spans of the canon, with documented teacher and influence lines.
Legend
- Baroque
- Classical
- Romantic
- Modern
- Taught
- Influenced
1685–1759
Handel
1685–1750
Johann Sebastian Bach
1732–1809
Joseph Haydn
1752–1832
Muzio Clementi
1756–1791
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
1770–1827
Ludwig van Beethoven
1791–1857
Carl Czerny
1797–1828
Franz Schubert
1806–1874
Friedrich Burgmüller
1809–1847
Felix Mendelssohn
1810–1849
Frédéric Chopin
1810–1856
Robert Schumann
1811–1886
Franz Liszt
1819–1900
Charles-Louis Hanon
1833–1897
Johannes Brahms
1845–1924
Gabriel Fauré
1862–1918
Claude Debussy
1866–1925
Erik Satie
1868–1917
Scott Joplin