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Mendelssohn
Romantic link movements virtuoso Bach closest
Franz Liszt
Romantic transcriptions religious master class symphonic poem Hungarian
Bedrich Smetana
Romantic pianist Bohemia patirot cyclical unity
Pyotr Ll’yich Tchaikovsky
Romantic Western and Russian Pathos nationalism
Robert Schumann
Romantic Bach/Beethoven syncopation, hemiola, cross rhythm literary
Johannes Brahms
Romantic nationalism rhythm: cross, synco, hemiola choralpolyphony German symphonic tradition
Guiseppe Verdi
Romantic Greatest Italian Opera bel canto coloratura arias used Durmas sources
Richard Wagner
Romantic Gesamtkunstwerk own librettos Tristan chord
Gustav Maler
Romantic - Exoticism orchestration master progressive harmony orchestral song Sehnsucht, Weltscherz
Maurice Ravel
impressionist neo classism Spanish Debussy, Rimsky, Stravinsky
Bela Bartok
Post-Romantic folk song with Zoltan Kodaly neoclassism Concerto
Sergi Prokofiev
Post Romanitc classical-lyrical-motoric-search innovation russian nationalism
Arnold Schoenberg
Expressionist - Serialism develop 12 tone 2nd viennese school Sprechstimme, Klang
Alban Berg
Expressionist - Serialism schoenberg teacher Balanced atonal, tonal
Anton Webern
Expressionist - Serialism strict 12tone approach palindrom
Olivier Messiaen
Serialism Catholic Spiritual - NonWestern - Nature bird song
Gyorgy Ligeti
serialism Hungarian-Romania non-Western humorous micropolyphony