Classical Music Surge

Composers and musicians were sponsored by monarchies to produce liturgical music and operas. By the 1600s, Europe had completed the wars and plagues that defined the period from 500 AD to 1400 AD and absorbed the explosion in trade expansion from 1400 to 1600 AD. The pile-on of famous composers is below.

George Frideric Handel (1685–1759)

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750)

Franz Joseph Haydn (1732–1806)

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791)

Ludwig Van Beethoven (1770–1827)

Niccolo Paganini (1782–1840)

Franz Peter Schubert (1797–1828)

Johann Strauss I (1804–1849)

Jacob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn (1809–1847)

Frederic Chopin (1810–1849)

Robert Alexander Schumann (1810–1856)

Franz Liszt (1811–1886)

Wilhelm Richard Wagner (1813–1883)

Giuseppe Fortunino Frencesco Verdi (1813–1901)

Clara Wieck Schumann (1819–1896)

Johannes Brahms (1833–1897)

Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840–1893)

Edvard Hagerup Grieg (1843–1907)

Giacomo Puccini (1858–1924)

Achille-Claude Debussy (1862–1918)

Joseph Maurice Ravel (1875–1937)

Igor Stravinsky (1882–1971)

Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofieff (1891–1953)

George Gershwin (1898–1937)

https://www.liveabout.com/classical-music-composer-timeline-723894

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