Middle ages (450-1450)
& Renaissance (1450-1600)

Guillaume de Machaut

Baroque (1600-1750)

Henry Purcell
Johann Sebastian Bach
Antonio Vivaldi
 George Frideric Hendel

Classic period (1750-1820)

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Joseph Haydn
Ludwig Van Beethoven

Romantic period (1820-1900)

The art of song
Piano music
Johannes Brahms
Tchaikovsky Piotr Ilich
Nationalism in XIXth century
Opera

The twentieth century

Russian school: Stravinsky, Prokofiev, Skriabin, Rachmaninov