TIME-LINE: ROMANTIC MUSIC AND 20TH- CENTURY MUSIC

1770
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770- 1827)
Beethoven, Symphony no. 5 in C Minor
1808
1813
Richard Wagner (1813-83)
1827
Beethoven died (1770-1827)
1839
Modest Musorgsky (1839-81)
Wagner, Die Walkure 
1856 
1858
Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924)
Wagner, Tristan
1859
1860
Hugo Wolf (1860-1903)
1862
Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
1864
Richard Strauss (1864-1949)
Wagner, Meistersinger
1867
1868
Scott Joplin (1868-1917)
Musorgsky, Boris Gudunov
1872
Alexander Skryabin (1872-1915)
1873
Rachmaninoff (1873-1943)
1874
Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951)
Charles Ives (1874-1954) 
 
1875
Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)
Wagner, Ring, performed at Bayreuth 
1876
1881
Musorgsky died (1839-81)
Béla Bartók (1881-1945)
1882
Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971)
1883
Wagner died (1813-83)
Anton Webern (1883-1945)
Edgard Varèse (1883-1965)
1885
Alban Berg (1885-1935)
Strauss, Don Juan
Wolf, Morike Lieder
Satie, Trois Gymnopedies
1888
R. Strauss, Don Juan
1889
Dvorák, New World Symphony
1893
Mahler, Symphony no. 3
1894
Debussy, Pelleas et Melisande
R. Strauss, Till Eulenspieget
1895

Paul Hindemith (1895-1963)
William Grant Still (1895-1978)
Carl Orff (1895-1982) 

Puccini, La Bohème
Elgar, Enigma Variations
1896
Roger Sessions (1896-1985)
Strauss, Don Quixote
Debussy, L'Après-midi d'une Faun
1897

Henry Cowell (1897-1965)
 
1898
George Gershwin (1898-1937)
Debussy, Nuages
Schoenberg, Verklärte Nacht
Joplin, Maple Leaf Rag
1899
Duke Ellington (1899-1974)
Schoenberg, Gurrelieder
1900
Aaron Copland (1900-90)
1901
Ruth Crawford Seeger (1901-1953)
Debussy, Pelleas et Melisande
1902
Debussy, Estampes
Skryabin, Piano Pieces, Op. 35 
1903
Wolf died (1860-1903)
Mahler, Kindertotenlieder
1904
R. Strauss, Salomé
Schoenberg, Pelleas...
1905
1906
Schoenberg, String Quartet no. 2
Ives, "Soliloquy"
Elgar, Pomp and Circumstance
1907

Schoenberg, String Quartet No. 2
Ives, The Unanswered Question
Debussy, Children's Corner Suite
Ravel, Bolero

1908 
Elliott Carter (b. 1908)

Olivier Messiaen (b. 1908)

Schoenberg, Five Orchestra Pieces, Op. 16
Webern, Five Movements for String Quartet, Op. 5 
Mahler, Das Lied von der erde
Rachmaninoff, Piano Concert No. 3
Vaughan Williams, Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis
1909
Stravinsky, Firebird
1910
Samuel Barber (1910-1981)
Bartók, Blueebeard'sCastle
Bartók, Allegro Barbaro
Stravinsky, Petrushka
1911
Berg, Altenberg Lieder
Schoenberg, Pierrot lunaire
1912
John Cage (1912-1992)

Stravinsky, Rite of Spring
Debussy, Jeux
Webern, Five Pieces for Orchestra, Op. 10
Ives, A Symphony: New England Holidays

1913
Benjamin Britten (1913-76)
Ives, "General William Booth Enters into Heaven"
1914
Ives, Concord Sonata
Holst, The Planets
1915
Skryabin died (1872-1915)
1916
Milton Babbitt (b. 1916) 
Ravel, Le Tombeau de Couperin
Satie, Parade
Stravinsky, Les Noces
Prokofiev, Classical Symphony, Op. 25
Bartók, String Quartet II
1917
Scott Joplin (1868-1917)`
Stravinsky, L'Histoire du soldat
1918
Debussy died (1862-1918)

Leonard Bernstein (b. 1918)

Bartók, The Miraculous Mandarin
Prokofiev, The Love for Three Orange, Op. 33

Ives, Symphony, New England Holidays

1919
Ravel, La Valse
Stravinsky, Pulcinella
1920 
Berg, Wozzeck
1921
1922
Varèse, Hyperprism
Milhaud, Le Creation du monde
Schoenberg, Suite for Piano, Op. 25
1923
György Ligeti (b. 1923) 
Stravinsky, Concerto for Piano and Winds
Honegger, Pacific 231
Gershwin, Rhapsody in Blue 
1924
Puccini died (1858-1924)
Gershwin, Concerto in F
1925
Pierre Boulez (b. 1925)
Berg, Lyric Suite
R.C. Seeger, Violin Sonata
Bartók, Out of Doors Suite
1926
Ellington at Cotton Club
1927

Schoenberg, Variations for Orchestra
Webern, Symphonie, Op. 21
Ravel, Bolero
Gershwin, American in Paris

1928
Karlheinz Stockhausen (b. 1928)
1929
George Crumb (b. 1929) 
Still, Afro-American Symphony 
Ellington, Mood Indigo
Stravinsky, Symphony of Psalms
Copland, Piano Variations
1930

Bartók, Piano Concerto, No. 2
Ellington, Creole Rhapsody and It Don't Mean a Thing...
Varèse, Ionisation

1931
Shostakovich, Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk
Schoenberg, Moses and Aaron
1932
1933
Krzysztof Penderecki (b. 1933)

Hindemith, Mathis der Mahler
Prokofiev, Lt. Kije Suite and Romeo and Juliet
Webern, Concerto for Nine Instruments, Op. 24
Rachmaninoff, Rhpasody on a theme of Paganini
Vaughan Williams, Fantasy on Greensleeves
Gershwin, I Got Rhythm Variations
Messiaen, L'Ascension

1934
Peter Maxwell Davies (b. 1934)
Gershwin, Porgy and Bess
1935
Berg died (1885-1935)
Elvis Presley (1935-1977)
Terry Riley (b. 1935)
Bartók, Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celesta
Bartók, Mikorkosmos
Schoenberg, Quartet IV, Op. 37
Barber, Adagio for Strings
Prokofiev, Peter and the Wolf
Orff, Carmina Burana
1936
Steve Reich (b. 1936) 
1937

Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)
Philip Glass (b. 1937)
George Gershwin (1898-1937)

Poulenc, Organ Concerto
Holiday, Summertime
1938
Prokofiev, Alexander Nevsky
Cage, Imaginary Landscapes
1939
Ellington, Ko-Ko
1940
Messiaen, Quatuor pour la fin du temps
Webern, Variations, Op. 30
Ellington, Ko0-Ko
1941
1942

Bartók, Concerto for Orchestra
Rogers and Hammerstein, Oklahoma!
Ellington, Black, Brown, and Beige

1943
Rachmaninoff (1873-1943)
Copland, Appalachian Spring
Bartók, Concerto for Orchestra
1944

Stravinsky, Symphony in Three Movements
Parker, Ko-Ko

1945
Bartók died (1881-1945)
Webern died (1883-1945)
1946
Schoenberg, Survivor from Warsaw
1947
John Adams (b. 1947)
Cage, Sonatas and Interludes
1948
1949
Strauss died (1864-1949)
Schoenberg, Out of the Depths
Copland, Songs on Poems by Emily DIckinson
Messiaen, Studies in Rhythm
1950
Stravinsky, The Rake's Progress
Boulez, Polyphonie IX and Structures
Cage, Music of Changes
1951
Schoenberg died (1874-1951)
Cage, 4'33"
1952
Stockhausen, Kontra-punkte
1953
Ruth Crawford Seeger (1901-53)
Bill Haley and the Comets, "Rock around the Clock"
CrewCuts, "Sh-Boom"
1954
Fats Domino, "Ain't That a Shame"
Bill Haley, "Rock around the Clock"
1955
Elvis Presley, "Heartbreak Hotel"

Stockhausen, Gesang der Jünglinge

1956
Babbitt, All Set
1957
Varèse, Poème electronique
1958
Schuller, Seven Studies on Themes of Paul Klee
Poulenc, Gloria
1959 
1960

Bernstein, West Side Story
Ligeti, Atmospheres
Cage, Silence

1961
1962
1963
Hindemith died (1895-1963
Babbitt, Philomel
1964 
Ligeti, Requiem
Reich, It's Gonna Rain
1965
Varèse died (1883-1965)
Rochberg, Nach Bach
Ligeti, Lux aeterna
1966

Beatles, Sgt. Pepper
Reich, Violin Phase

1967
1968
1968 

Shostakovich, Symphony No. 14
Terry Riley Rainbow in Curved Air
Woodstock

1969
Crumb, Black Angels
1970

Crumb, Ancient Voices of Children
Reich, Drumming

1971
Stravinsky died (1882-1971)
Crumg, Makrokosmos
1972
1973
1974
Ellington died (1899-1974)
1975
Ligeti, Selfportrait
1976
Britten died (1913-76)
Ligeti, Le Grand Macabre
1977
Presley died (1935-77)
1978
Reich, Violin Phase
1979
1980
1981
Adams, Grand Pianola Music
1982
Orff died (1895-1982)
1983
1974
1984
1985
1986
John Adams, Nixon in China
1987
1974
Reich, Different Trains
1988
Jaffe, Fort Juniper Songs
1989
1990
Copland died (1900-90)
1991
1992
Cage died (1912-1992)
1993
1994
1995
1996
1997
1998
1999
2000

 

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