Graphical timeline for classical composers

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from:1525 till:1594 color:Ren text:GP da Palestrina
from:1543 till:1623 color:Ren text:W Byrd

from:1562 till:1621 color:Bar text:JP Sweelinck
from:1563 till:1621 color:Bar text:K Harant
from:1567 till:1643 color:Bar text:C Monteverdi
from:1583 till:1643 color:Bar text:G Frescobaldi
from:1585 till:1672 color:Bar text:H Schütz
from:1632 till:1687 color:Bar text:JB Lully
from:1637 till:1707 color:Bar text:D Buxtehude
from:1653 till:1713 color:Bar text:A Corelli
from:1659 till:1695 color:Bar text:H Purcell
from:1660 till:1725 color:Bar text:A Scarlatti
from:1674 till:1754 color:Bar text:T Albinoni
from:1678 till:1741 color:Bar text:A Vivaldi
from:1681 till:1767 color:Bar text:GP Telemann
from:1683 till:1764 color:Bar text:JP Rameau
from:1685 till:1750 color:Bar text:JS Bach
from:1685 till:1757 color:Bar text:D Scarlatti
from:1685 till:1759 color:Bar text:GF Händel
from:1710 till:1736 color:Bar text:GB Pergolesi
from:1714 till:1798 color:Cla text:CW Gluck
from:1732 till:1809 color:Cla text:J Haydn
from:1750 till:1825 color:Cla text:A Salieri
from:1751 till:1825 color:Cla text:D Bortniansky
from:1756 till:1791 color:Cla text:WA Mozart
from:1770 till:1827 color:cla text:L v Beethoven
from:1782 till:1840 color:Rom text:N Paganini
barset:break
from:1786 till:1826 color:Rom text:CM von Weber
from:1791 till:1857 color:Rom text:C Czerny
from:1792 till:1868 color:Rom text:G Rossini
from:1797 till:1828 color:Rom text:F Schubert
from:1797 till:1848 color:Rom text:G Donizetti
from:1803 till:1869 color:Rom text:H Berlioz
from:1809 till:1847 color:Rom text:F Mendelssohn
from:1810 till:1849 color:Rom text:F Chopin
from:1810 till:1856 color:Rom text:R Schumann
from:1811 till:1886 color:Rom text:F Liszt
from:1813 till:1883 color:Rom text:R Wagner
from:1813 till:1901 color:Rom text:G Verdi
from:1819 till:1880 color:Rom text:J Offenbach
from:1824 till:1884 color:Rom text:B Smetana
from:1824 till:1896 color:Rom text:A Bruckner
from:1833 till:1897 color:Rom text:J Brahms
from:1835 till:1921 color:Rom text:C Saint-Saëns
from:1838 till:1875 color:Rom text:G Bizet
from:1838 till:1920 color:Rom text:M Bruch
from:1839 till:1881 color:Rom text:M Mussorgsky
from:1840 till:1893 color:Rom text:PI Tchaikovsky
from:1841 till:1904 color:Rom text:A Dvorák
from:1843 till:1907 color:Rom text:E Grieg
from:1844 till:1908 color:Rom text:N Rimsky-Korsakov
from:1858 till:1924 color:Rom text:G Puccini
from:1872 till:1915 color:Rom text:A Scriabin
from:1873 till:1943 color:Rom text:S Rachmaninoff
from:1881 till:1945 color:Rom text:B Bartók
from:1891 till:1953 color:Rom text:S Prokofiev

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barSet:Composers

from:1160 till:1220 text:Perotin
from:1163 till:1195 text:Leonin
from:1245 till:1306 text:Adam de la Halle
from:1250 till:1280 text:Franco of Cologne
from:1291 till:1361 text:Philippe de Vitry
from:1300 till:1377 text:Guillaume de Machaut
from:1325 till:1397 text:Francesco Landini
from:1340 till:1360 text:Jacopo da Bologna

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barset:Composers

from:1400 till:1445 text:Leonel Power       #from 1375
from:1400 till:1453 text:John Dunstable       #from 1390
from:1400 till:1460 text:Gilles Binchois
from:1400 till:1474 text:Guillaume Dufay
from:1430 till:1495 text:Johannes Ockeghem       #from 1430
from:1450 till:1505 text:Jacob Obrecht
from:1450 till:1521 text:Josquin Des Prez
from:1450 till:1517 text:Heinrich Isaac
from:1459 till:1522 text:Jean Mouton
from:1460 till:1518 text:Pierre de La Rue
from:1490 till:1560 text:Nicolas Gombert
from:1490 till:1562 text:Adrian Willaert
from:1490 till:1545 text:John Taverner
from:1505 till:1572 text:Christopher Tye
from:1505 till:1585 text:Thomas Tallis
from:1510 till:1586 text:Andrea Gabrieli
from:1515 till:1565 text:Jacob Clemens non Papa
from:1516 till:1565 text:Cipriano de Rore
from:1525 till:1594 text:"Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina" $bold
from:1532 till:1594 text:Orlandus Lassus
from:1543 till:1623 text:William Byrd
from:1548 till:1611 text:Tomas Luis de Victoria
from:1557 till:1612 text:Giovanni Gabrieli
from:1561 till:1613 text:Carlo Gesualdo

1. from:1480 till:1545 text:Philippe Verdelot
2. from:1466 till:1506 text:Martin Agricola
3. from:1475 till:1520 text:Antoine Brumel
4. from:1495 till:1545 text:Constanzo Festa
5. from:1508 till:1563 text:Hans Newsidler
6. from:1510 till:1572 text:Claude Goudimel
7. from:1530 till:1600 text:Claude Le Jeune
8. from:1545 till:1607 text:Luzzasco Luzzaschi
9. from:1563 till:end text:John Dowland #till 1626
10. from:1567 till:1620 text:Thomas Campion
11. from:1569 till:end text:Tobias Hume #till 1645
12. from:1570 till:end text:John Cooper #till 1626
13. from:1571 till:end text:Michael Praetorius
14. from:1583 till:1625 text:Orlando Gibbons

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1. set defaults

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barset:Composers

from:1600 till:1633 text:"Jacopo Peri"       #from 1561
from:1600 till:1621 text:"Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck" $bold    #from 1562
from:1600 till:1643 text:"Claudio Monteverdi" $bold       #from 1567
from:1600 till:1652 text:"Gregorio Allegri"       #from 1582
from:1600 till:1643 text:"Girolamo Frescobaldi"       #from 1583
from:1600 till:1672 text:"Heinrich Schütz"       #from 1585
from:1600 till:1654 text:"Samuel Scheidt"       #from 1587
from:1632 till:1687 text:"Jean-Baptiste Lully"
from:1634 till:1704 text:"Marc Antoine Charpentier"
from:1637 till:1707 text:"Dieterich Buxtehude" $bold
from:1644 till:1704 text:"Heinrich Ignaz Biber"
from:1653 till:1706 text:"Johann Pachelbel"
from:1653 till:1713 text:"Arcangelo Corelli"
from:1659 till:1695 text:"Henry Purcell" $bold
from:1660 till:1725 text:"Alessandro Scarlatti" $bold
from:1668 till:1733 text:"François Couperin"
from:1670 till:1746 text:"Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer"
from:1670 till:1758 text:"Richard Leveridge"
from:1674 till:1754 text:"Tomaso Albinoni" $bold
from:1675 till:1738 text:"Tommaso Redi"
from:1675 till:1742 text:"Evaristo Abaco"
from:1678 till:1741 text:"Antonio Vivaldi" $bold
from:1681 till:1760 text:"Georg Philipp Telemann" $bold       #till 1767
from:1683 till:1760 text:"Jean-Philippe Rameau"       #till 1764
from:1685 till:1750 text:"Johann Sebastian Bach" $bold
from:1685 till:1757 text:"Domenico Scarlatti" $bold
from:1685 till:1759 text:"George Friderich Händel" $bold
from:1686 till:1750 text:"Silvius Leopold Weiss"
from:1687 till:1760 text:"Francesco Geminiani"       #till 1762
from:1688 till:1758 text:"Johann Friedrich Fasch"
from:1692 till:1760 text:"Unico Wilhelm von Wassenaar"       #till 1766
from:1692 till:1760 text:"Giuseppe Tartini"       #till 1770
from:1695 till:1760 text:"Pietro Locatelli"       #till 1764
from:1696 till:1755 text:"Maurice Greene"
from:1697 till:1760 text:"Johann Joachim Quantz"       #till 1773
from:1699 till:1760 text:"Jan Zach"       #till 1773
from:1706 till:1760 text:"Baldassare Galuppi"       #till 1785
from:1710 till:1736 text:"Giovanni Battista Pergolesi" $bold
from:1710 till:1740 text:"Domenico Alberti"

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barset:Composers

from:1730 till:1775 text:"Giovanni Battista Sammartini"       #from 1700
from:1730 till:1784 text:"Wilhelm Friedemann Bach"       #from 1710
from:1730 till:1788 text:"Giuseppe Bonno"       #from 1711
from:1730 till:1787 text:"Christoph Willibald Gluck"  $bold   #from 1714
from:1730 till:1788 text:"Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach"  $bold   #from 1714
from:1730 till:1777 text:"Georg Christoph Wagenseil"       #from 1715
from:1730 till:1787 text:"Leopold Mozart"       #from 1719
from:1730 till:1788 text:"Carlo Antonio Campioni"       #from 1720
from:1730 till:1799 text:"Pieter Hellendaal"       #from 1721
from:1730 till:1787 text:"Karl Friedrich Abel"       #from 1725
from:1730 till:1795 text:"François-André Danican Philidor"    #from 1726
from:1730 till:1779 text:"Tommaso Traetta"       #from 1727
from:1730 till:1783 text:"Antonio Soler"       #from 1729
from:1732 till:1809 text:"Joseph Haydn"  $bold
from:1735 till:1767 text:"Johann Schobert"
from:1735 till:1782 text:"Johann Christian Bach"
from:1737 till:1781 text:"Josef Myslivecek"
from:1737 till:1806 text:"Michael Haydn"
from:1739 till:1799 text:"Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf"
from:1741 till:1801 text:"Andrea Luchesi"
from:1741 till:1816 text:"Giovanni Paisiello"
from:1743 till:1805 text:"Luigi Boccherini"
from:1746 till:1800 text:"William Billings"
from:1749 till:1801 text:"Domenico Cimarosa"
from:1750 till:1820 text:"Antonio Salieri" $bold       #till 1825
from:1756 till:1791 text:"Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart"  $bold
from:1756 till:1792 text:"Joseph Martin Kraus"
from:1760 till:1820 text:"Luigi Cherubini"       #till 1842
from:1763 till:1820 text:"Franz Danzi"       #till 1826
from:1770 till:1820 text:"Ludwig van Beethoven" $bold       #till 1827
from:1778 till:1820 text:"Johann Nepomuk Hummel"       #till 1837
from:1778 till:1820 text:"Fernando Sor"       #till 1839
from:1782 till:1820 text:"John Field"       #till 1837

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barset:Composers

from:1815 till:1827 text:"Ludwig van Beethoven" $bold       #from 1770
from:1815 till:1837 text:"Johann Nepomuk Hummel"       #from 1778
from:1815 till:1839 text:"Fernando Sor"       #from 1778
from:1815 till:1861 text:"Anthony Philip Heinrich"       #from 1781
from:1815 till:1837 text:"John Field"       #from 1782
from:1815 till:1840 text:"Niccolo Paganini" $bold       #from 1782
from:1815 till:1863 text:"Daniel Auber"       #from 1782 #till 1871
from:1815 till:1859 text:"Louis Spohr"       #from 1784
from:1815 till:1826 text:"Carl Maria von Weber" $bold       #from 1786
from:1815 till:1857 text:"Carl Czerny"       #from 1791
from:1815 till:1863 text:"Giacomo Meyerbeer"       #from 1791 #till 1864
from:1815 till:1863 text:"Gioacchino Rossini" $bold #from 1792 #till 1868
from:1815 till:1863 text:"Franz Berwald"       #from 1796 #till 1868
from:1815 till:1863 text:"Carl Loewe" $bold       #from 1796 #till 1869
from:1815 till:1828 text:"Franz Schubert" $bold       #from 1797
from:1815 till:1848 text:"Gaetano Donizetti" $bold       #from 1797
from:1815 till:1835 text:"Vincenzo Bellini"       #from 1801
from:1815 till:1856 text:"Adolphe-Charles Adam"       #from 1803
from:1815 till:1857 text:"Mikhail Glinka"       #from 1803
from:1815 till:1863 text:"Hector Berlioz" $bold    #from 1803 #till 1869
from:1815 till:1849 text:"Johann Strauss I" $bold       #from 1804
from:1815 till:1847 text:"Fanny Mendelssohn"       #from 1805
from:1815 till:1826 text:"Juan Crisostomo de Arriaga"       #from 1806
from:1815 till:1863 text:"Michael William Balfe"   #from 1808 #till 1870
from:1815 till:1847 text:"Felix Mendelssohn" $bold       #from 1809
from:1815 till:1863 text:"Otto Lindblad"       #from 1809 #till 1864
from:1815 till:1836 text:"Nobert Burgmüller"       #from 1810
from:1815 till:1849 text:"Carl Otto Nicolai"       #from 1810
from:1815 till:1849 text:"Frédéric Chopin" $bold       #from 1810
from:1815 till:1856 text:"Robert Schumann" $bold       #from 1810
from:1815 till:1863 text:"Franz Liszt" $bold       #from 1811 #till 1886
from:1815 till:1863 text:"Richard Wagner" $bold    #from 1813 #till 1883
from:1815 till:1863 text:"Charles-Valentin Alkan"  #from 1813 #till 1888
from:1815 till:1863 text:"Giuseppe Verdi" $bold    #from 1813 #till 1901
from:1815 till:1863 text:"Robert Volkmann"       #till 1899
from:1817 till:1863 text:"Niels Wilhelm Gade"       #till 1899
from:1818 till:1863 text:"Charles Gounod"       #till 1893
from:1819 till:1863 text:"Jacques Offenbach" $bold       #till 1880
from:1819 till:1863 text:"Clara Schumann" $bold       #till 1896
from:1822 till:1863 text:"César Franck"       #till 1890
from:1823 till:1863 text:"Edouard Lalo"       #till 1892
from:1824 till:1863 text:"Bedrich Smetana" $bold       #till 1884
from:1824 till:1863 text:"Anton Bruckner" $bold       #till 1896
from:1825 till:1863 text:"Johann Strauss II" $bold       #till 1899
from:1827 till:1863 text:"Joseph Strauss"       #till 1870
from:1829 till:1863 text:"Louis Moreau Gottschalk"       #till 1869
from:1829 till:1863 text:"Anton Rubinstein"       #till 1894
from:1830 till:1863 text:"Karl Goldmark"       #till 1915
from:1833 till:1858 text:"Francis Edward Bache"
from:1833 till:1863 text:"Alexander Borodin"       #till 1887
from:1833 till:1863 text:"Johannes Brahms" $bold       #till 1897
from:1834 till:1858 text:"Julius Reubke"
from:1835 till:1863 text:"Henryk Wieniawski"       #till 1880
from:1835 till:1863 text:"Camille Saint-Saëns" $bold       #till 1921