The Pre-Renaissance Period (Before 1450) 3 The Renaissance Period (1450 to 1600) 6 Giovanni-Pierluigi da Palestrina (1524 to 1594) 8 The Baroque Period (1600 to 1750) 11 Some General Characteristics of Baroque Music 13 Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 to 1750) 14 George Frederic Handel (1685 to 1759) 18 The Classical Period (1750 to 1825) 22 Some General Characteristics of Classical Music 25 Franz Joseph Haydn (1732 to 1809) 26 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756to 1791) 29 Ludwig Van Beethoven (1770 to 1827) 32 The Romantic Period (1825 to 1900) 35 Some General Characteristics of Romantic Music 37 Franz Schubert (1797 to 1828) 38 Felix Mendelssohn (1809 to 1847) 41 Frederic Chopin (1810 to 1849) 44 Franz Liszt (1811 to 1886) 46 Johannes Brahms (1833 to 1897) 49 Peter Ilitch Tschaikovsky (1840 to 1893) 52 Johann Strauss Jr. (1825 to 1899) 55 Anton Dvorak (1841 to 1904) 57 The Impressionist Period (Approx. 1885 to 1910) 60 Claude Debussy (1862 to 1918) 62 The Contemporary Period (1900 to Present) 65 Some General Characteristics of Contemporary Music 66 George Gershwin (1898 to 1937) 68 Aaron Copland (1900 to ) 71 Dmitri Shostakovich (1906 to 1975) 72 Into the Next Century 73
