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Pioneer of opera : Claudio Monteverdi
Transfiguration of the baroque : Johann Sebastian Bach
Composer and impresario : George Frideric Handel
Reformer of opera : Christoph Willibald Gluck
Classicism par excellence : Joseph Haydn
Prodigy from Salzburg : Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Revolutionary from Bonn : Ludwig Van Beethoven
Poet of music : Franz Schubert
Freedom and a new language : Weber and the early romantics
Romantic exuberance and classic restraint : Hector Berlioz
Florestan and Eusebius : Robert Schumann
Apotheosis of the piano : Frederic Chopin
Virtuoso, charlatan
and prophet : Franz Liszt
Bourgeois genius : Felix Mendelssohn
Voice, voice, and more voice : Rossini, Donizetti, Bellini
Spectacle, spectacle, and more spectacle : Meyerbeer, Cherubini, Auber
Colossus of Italy : Giuseppe Verdi
Colossus of Germany : Richard Wagner
Keeper of the flame : Johannes Brahms
Master of the lied : Hugo Wolf
Waltz, can-can, and satire : Strauss, Offenbach, Sullivan
Faust and French opera : From Gounod to Saint-Saens
Russian nationalism and the mighty five : From Glinka to Rimsky-Korsakov
Surcharged emotionalism : Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
From Bohemia to Spain : European nationalists
Chromaticism and sensibilite : From Franck to Faure
Only for the theater : Giacomo Puccini
Romanticism's long coda : Richard Strauss
Religion, mysticism and retrospection : Bruckner, Mahler, Reger
Sympolism and impressionism : Claude Debussy
Gallic elegance and the new breed : Maurice Ravel and Les Six
The chameleon : Igor Stravinsky
The English Renaissance : Elgar, Delius, Vaughan Williams
Mysticism and melancholy : Scriabin and Rachmaninoff
Under the Soviets : Prokofiev and Shostakovich
German neoclassicism : Busoni, Weill, Hindemith
Rise of an American tradition : From Gottschalk to Copland
The uncompromising Hungarian : Bela Bartok
The second Viennese school : Schoenberg, Berg, Webern
The international serial movement : From Varese to Messiaen
The new eclecticism : From Carter to the minimalists