Classical
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Originating Location: Italy, Greece, France, Turkey, Syria, Iberia and Egypt.
Originating Styles: Early Christian religious music, plainchant, folk styles, theater and market music, Greek and Roman music theory.
Originating Era: Between the 6th and 9th century.
Key Composers
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Renaissance: ItalyEdit
Baroque and Rococo: Germany, France and ItalyEdit
Early Classicism: Germany, Austria and ItalyEdit
- Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
- Luigi Boccherini
- Christoph Willibald Gluck
- Joseph Haydn
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Late Classicism: Germany, Austria and ItalyEdit
- Ludwig van Beethoven
- Johannes Brahms
- Frederic Chopin
- Franz Schubert
- Robert Schumann
- Gioachino Rossini
- Carl Maria von Weber
Early Romanticism: Germany, France and ItalyEdit
- Hector Berlioz
- Franz Lizst
- Felix Mendelssohn
- Niccolo Paganini
- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
- Giuseppe Verdi
- Richard Wagner
Late Romanticism: Austria, Czechia and RussiaEdit
- Antonin Dvorak
- Edward Elgar
- Evard Grieg
- Gustav Mahler
- Modest Mussorgsky
- Sergei Rachmaninov
- Jean Sibelius
- Bedřich Smetana
Neoclassicism, Neoromanticism and Neobaroque: Britain, Russia, GermanyEdit
- Béla Bartók
- Aaron Copland
- Paul Hindemith
- Gustav Holst
- George Lloyd
- Carl Nielsen
- Francis Poulenc
- Sergei Prokofiev
- Max Reger
- Dmitri Shostakovich
- Igor Stravinsky
- Ralph Vaughan Williams
- Heitor Villa-Lobos
Impressionism, Post-Romanticism and Expressionism: France and AustriaEdit
- Louis Andriessen
- Béla Bartók
- Claude Debussy
- Olivier Messiaen
- Maurice Ravel
- Erik Satie
- Arnold Schönberg
- Albarn Berg
- Anton Webern
- Igor Stravinsky
Minimalism: America and the NetherlandsEdit
- John Adams
- Louis Andriessen
- John Cage
- Philip Glass
- Karel Goeyvaerts
- Henryk Górecki
- Arvo Pärt
- Steve Reich
- Terry Riley
- Erik Satie
- John Tavener
- LaMonte Young
Populare form: America and AustriaEdit
- Johann Strauss I (Waltz)
- Johann Strauss II (Waltz and Operetta)
- George Gershwin (Jazz and Operetta)
- Ennio Morricone (Film)
- John Williams (Film)
Key AlbumsEdit
Genre DescriptionEdit
Western Classical is the oldest type of "serious" music. It's a huge blanket term for basically all forms of court, church and upper-middle class music, and sometimes important popular composers. Classical music can be vocal; between song and operatic theater, or instrumental; solo instrument and big orchestral ensembles -- there are many classical pieces for solo piano, violin or harpsichord. Most people think that classical music was written centuries ago, but there is still classical music being written today, though usually for a much smaller market, unless it is in a romantic or classical style. A lot of 20th/21st Century classical, however, is much more experimental than it was before (But also much more fragmented), making it interesting for smaller groups of music specialists but not for a broader market.
Artists in this genreEdit
This only includes artists for whom there are recordings.
ConductorsEdit
- Claudio Abbado
- Leonard Bernstein
- Sir Colin Davis
- Bernard Haitink
- Sir Neville Marriner
- André Previn
- Simon Rattle
- Georg Solti
- Georg Tintner
- Pinchas Zukerman
PianistsEdit
- Leif Ove Andsnes
- Claudio Arrau
- Vladimir Ashkenazy
- Daniel Barenboim
- Vladimir Feltsman
- Vladimir Horowitz
- Lang Lang
- Maurizio Pollini
- Sergei Rachmaninoff
ViolinistsEdit
OtherEdit
Labels in this genreEdit
- BIS
- BMG
- Capitol
- Columbia
- Deutsche Harmonia Mundi
- EMI
- Harmonia Mundi France
- MCA
- Mercury
- Naxos
- PolyGram
- Sony
- Warner Brothers
