The great Romantic composers North America
Grainger or Rózsa? Gershwin or Martinů? It is difficult for inquiring minds to tackle such abundant fields as classical music and opera, covering 10 centuries of history: there are thousands of composers. Making a selection of musicians, such as a “top 10” for example, is a difficult and subjective exercise. A musical selection is often the expression of personal preferences or artistic opinions, very interesting but also very different according to critics or musicologists, or simply influenced by the context: will an English composer not be instinctively privileged by an English critic?
For example: in France, Charles Gounod, a 19th century French composer, is more easily mentioned than the Norwegian Edvard Grieg, who is more recognized in the world.
Timeline of classical music composers, between 1790 and 1910 (romantic era) in North America
Whoever wants to discover classical music or opera does not always have an experienced music lover, an expert or an educator at his or her side to support and guide him or her in these fields. So : Grainger (Australian-born composer, arranger and pianist (1882–1961)) or Rózsa (Hungarian-American composer (1907–1995)) ? Adorno (German philosopher, sociologist and theorist (1903–1969)) or Partch (American composer, music theorist, creator of musical instruments) ? However, the knowledge available about musicians is enormous. It was processed to select the 10, 25, 50... most popular composers around the world, for those living or having lived en North America, between 1790 and 1910 (romantic era). And this objectively, and for the first time (soclassiq exclusivity).
Composers rendered as a timeline to bring a little perspective:
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This timeline is interactive to navigate through the ages , or eras : medieval music, renaissance, baroque music (Bach...), classical period (Mozart...), romantic music (Beethoven...), XXth (Stravinsky), or across continents (with ).
Top 10 classical musiccomposers in North America for the years 1790-1910
Who are these greatest composers, the most famous over the 1790-1910 era in North America? The works of these musician have shaped the history of classical music and lyric art. There are those you probably know, or at least by name and the others.
Here are these 10 classical music composers, renowned artists from around the world:
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The selections of musicians (classical music composers) proposed by soclassiq are based exclusively on algorithms. The same applies to their works, the performers, the lyrical singers, les orchestras, the conductors and the venues : opera houses, concert halls or festivals.
What about the others? 25, 50 or more?
Summarizing to 10 musician names such a wide and diverse field may seem extreme or too simplistic for those who know classical music and lyrical art well, for those who can easily name 50 or more classical music composers. Bartók, Ives, MacDowell, Joplin, Bull, Stravinsky, Weill...
At this time, soclassiq has listed more than 19000 composers. So here is a selection of some composers for the romantic era, in North America, widely recognized around the world:
Note:
- This selection may include highly reputed artists and musicians who have occasionally devoted themselves to classical music and not exclusively.
- It may also include composers who have been or are concert performers, some more renowned for their careers than for the work they have left behind.
Lora Aborn The great Romantic composers
1907-2005 (20th century)
Performer & Composer
Paul Abraham The great Romantic composers
1892-1960 (20th century)
Conductor & Composer
Maurice Abravanel The great Romantic composers
1903-1993 (20th century)
Conductor, Performer & Composer
Timothee Adamowski The great Romantic composers
1857-1943 (20th century)
Conductor, Performer & Composer
Theodor W. Adorno The great Romantic composers
1903-1969 (20th century)
Performer & Composer
Emma Albani The great Romantic composers
1847-1930 (Romantic)
Lyrical singer & Composer
John Alden Carpenter The great Romantic composers
1876-1951 (20th century)
Composer
Daniele Amfitheatrof The great Romantic composers
1901-1983 (20th century)
Conductor & Composer
Leroy Anderson The great Romantic composers
1908-1975 (20th century)
Conductor & Composer
George Antheil The great Romantic composers
1900-1959 (20th century)
Performer & Composer
Leo Arnaud The great Romantic composers
1904-1991 (20th century)
Performer & Composer
Leopold von Auer The great Romantic composers
1845-1930 (Romantic)
Conductor, Performer & Composer
Aaron Avshalomov The great Romantic composers
1894-1965 (20th century)
Conductor & Composer
Samuel L. M. Barlow The great Romantic composers
1892-1982 (20th century)
Composer
Béla Bartók The great Romantic composers
1881-1945 (20th century)
Performer & Composer
MasterpiecesComplete works
Amy Beach The great Romantic composers
1867-1944 (20th century)
Performer & Composer
Eubie Blake The great Romantic composers
1887-1983 (20th century)
Performer & Composer
Hubert de Blanck The great Romantic composers
1856-1932 (Romantic)
Performer & Composer
Marc Blitzstein The great Romantic composers
1905-1964 (20th century)
Performer & Composer
Ernest Bloch The great Romantic composers
1880-1959 (20th century)
Performer & Composer
Victor Borge The great Romantic composers
1909-2000 (20th century)
Conductor, Performer & Composer
Joseph Carl Breil The great Romantic composers
1870-1926 (Romantic)
Lyrical singer & Composer
Dudley Buck The great Romantic composers
1839-1909 (Romantic)
Composer
Ole Bull The great Romantic composers
1810-1880 (Romantic)
Performer & Composer
Adolf Busch The great Romantic composers
1891-1952 (20th century)
Performer & Composer
Sophie Carmen Eckhardt-Gramatté The great Romantic composers
1899-1974 (20th century)
Performer & Composer
Hoagy Carmichael The great Romantic composers
1899-1981 (20th century)
Lyrical singer, Performer & Composer
Benjamin Carr The great Romantic composers
1768-1831 (Classical)
Lyrical singer, Performer & Composer
Julián Carrillo The great Romantic composers
1875-1965 (20th century)
Conductor & Composer
Elliott Carter The great Romantic composers
1908-2012 (20th century)
Performer & Composer
Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco The great Romantic composers
1895-1968 (20th century)
Performer & Composer
Ricardo Castro The great Romantic composers
1864-1907 (Romantic)
Performer & Composer
Ignacio Cervantes The great Romantic composers
1847-1905 (Romantic)
Performer & Composer
George Whitefield Chadwick The great Romantic composers
1854-1931 (Romantic)
Performer & Composer
Claude Champagne The great Romantic composers
1891-1965 (20th century)
Performer & Composer
Carlos Chávez The great Romantic composers
1899-1978 (20th century)
Conductor, Performer & Composer
Aaron Copland The great Romantic composers
1900-1990 (20th century)
Conductor, Performer & Composer
MasterpiecesComplete works
Henry Cowell The great Romantic composers
1897-1965 (20th century)
Performer & Composer
Ruth Crawford Seeger The great Romantic composers
1901-1953 (20th century)
Composer
Walter Damrosch The great Romantic composers
1862-1950 (20th century)
Conductor, Performer & Composer
Lorenzo da Da Ponte The great Romantic composers
1749-1838 (Classical)
Composer
Lionel Daunais The great Romantic composers
1901-1982 (20th century)
Lyrical singer & Composer
Antal Doráti The great Romantic composers
1906-1988 (20th century)
Conductor & Composer
Vernon Duke The great Romantic composers
1903-1969 (20th century)
Composer
Julian Edwards The great Romantic composers
1855-1910 (Romantic)
Performer & Composer
Alfred Einstein The great Romantic composers
1880-1952 (20th century)
Composer
Hanns Eisler The great Romantic composers
1898-1962 (20th century)
Performer & Composer
Eleanor Everest Freer The great Romantic composers
1864-1942 (20th century)
Composer
Percy Faith The great Romantic composers
1908-1976 (20th century)
Conductor, Performer & Composer
Arthur Fiedler The great Romantic composers
1894-1979 (20th century)
Conductor, Performer & Composer
Stephen Foster The great Romantic composers
1826-1864 (Romantic)
Lyrical singer, Performer & Composer
Florence Foster Jenkins The great Romantic composers
1868-1944 (20th century)
Lyrical singer, Performer & Composer
Massimo Freccia The great Romantic composers
1906-2004 (20th century)
Conductor & Composer
George Frederick Bristow The great Romantic composers
1825-1898 (Romantic)
Performer & Composer
Rudolf Friml The great Romantic composers
1879-1972 (20th century)
Performer & Composer
Eduardo Sánchez de Fuentes The great Romantic composers
1874-1944 (20th century)
Composer
Ivan Galamian The great Romantic composers
1903-1981 (20th century)
Performer & Composer
Alejandro García Caturla The great Romantic composers
1906-1940 (20th century)
Conductor & Composer
George Gershwin The great Romantic composers
1898-1937 (20th century)
Conductor, Performer & Composer
MasterpiecesComplete works
Vittorio Giannini The great Romantic composers
1903-1966 (20th century)
Performer & Composer
Aurelio Giorni The great Romantic composers
1895-1938 (20th century)
Performer & Composer
Leib Glantz The great Romantic composers
1898-1964 (20th century)
Lyrical singer & Composer
Leopold Godowsky The great Romantic composers
1870-1938 (20th century)
Performer & Composer
Percy Grainger The great Romantic composers
1882-1961 (20th century)
Conductor, Performer & Composer
Marcel Grandjany The great Romantic composers
1891-1975 (20th century)
Performer & Composer
William Grant Still The great Romantic composers
1895-1978 (20th century)
Conductor, Performer & Composer
Alexander Gretchaninov The great Romantic composers
1864-1956 (20th century)
Conductor, Performer & Composer
Ferde von Grofé The great Romantic composers
1892-1972 (20th century)
Conductor, Performer & Composer
Louis Gruenberg The great Romantic composers
1884-1964 (20th century)
Performer & Composer
Oscar Hammerstein I The great Romantic composers
1847-1919 (Romantic)
Composer
W. C. Handy The great Romantic composers
1873-1958 (20th century)
Performer & Composer
Howard Hanson The great Romantic composers
1896-1981 (20th century)
Conductor, Performer & Composer
Roy Harris The great Romantic composers
1898-1979 (20th century)
Performer & Composer
Roland Hayes The great Romantic composers
1887-1977 (20th century)
Lyrical singer & Composer
Anthony Philip Heinrich The great Romantic composers
1781-1861 (Romantic)
Conductor, Performer & Composer
Victor Herbert The great Romantic composers
1859-1924 (Romantic)
Conductor, Performer & Composer
Eduardo Hernández Moncada The great Romantic composers
1899-1995 (20th century)
Conductor, Performer & Composer
Paul Hindemith The great Romantic composers
1895-1963 (20th century)
Conductor, Performer & Composer
Gustav Hinrichs The great Romantic composers
1850-1942 (Romantic)
Conductor & Composer
Richard Hoffman The great Romantic composers
1831-1909 (Romantic)
Performer & Composer
Josef Hofmann The great Romantic composers
1876-1957 (20th century)
Performer & Composer
Vladimir Horowitz The great Romantic composers
1903-1989 (20th century)
Performer & Composer
Sebastián de Iradier The great Romantic composers
1809-1865 (Romantic)
Composer
Charles Ives The great Romantic composers
1874-1954 (20th century)
Performer & Composer
Tony Jackson The great Romantic composers
1876-1921 (Romantic)
Lyrical singer, Performer & Composer
J. Rosamond Johnson The great Romantic composers
1873-1954 (20th century)
Composer
Scott Joplin The great Romantic composers
1868-1917 (Romantic)
Performer & Composer
Jeronimas Kačinskas The great Romantic composers
1907-2005 (20th century)
Conductor, Performer & Composer
Emmerich Kálmán The great Romantic composers
1882-1953 (20th century)
Conductor & Composer
Jānis Kalniņš The great Romantic composers
1904-2000 (20th century)
Conductor & Composer
Jerome Kern The great Romantic composers
1885-1945 (20th century)
Composer
Henry Kimball Hadley The great Romantic composers
1871-1937 (20th century)
Conductor & Composer
Erich Wolfgang Korngold The great Romantic composers
1897-1957 (20th century)
Conductor, Performer & Composer
MasterpiecesComplete works
Andre Kostelanetz The great Romantic composers
1901-1980 (20th century)
Conductor & Composer
Serge Koussevitzky The great Romantic composers
1874-1951 (20th century)
Conductor, Performer & Composer
Louis Krasner The great Romantic composers
1903-1995 (20th century)
Performer & Composer
Fritz Kreisler The great Romantic composers
1875-1962 (20th century)
Performer & Composer
Ernst Krenek The great Romantic composers
1900-1991 (20th century)
Conductor & Composer
Efrem Kurtz The great Romantic composers
1900-1995 (20th century)
Conductor & Composer
Ludovic Lamothe The great Romantic composers
1882-1953 (20th century)
Performer & Composer
Agustín Lara The great Romantic composers
1897-1970 (20th century)
Lyrical singer & Composer
Calixa Lavallée The great Romantic composers
1842-1891 (Romantic)
Conductor, Performer & Composer
Harry Lawrence Freeman The great Romantic composers
1869-1954 (20th century)
Composer
Ernesto Lecuona The great Romantic composers
1896-1963 (20th century)
Performer & Composer
Oscar Levant The great Romantic composers
1906-1972 (20th century)
Performer & Composer
Frederick Loewe The great Romantic composers
1901-1988 (20th century)
Performer & Composer
Otto Luening The great Romantic composers
1900-1996 (20th century)
Conductor & Composer
Edward MacDowell The great Romantic composers
1860-1908 (Romantic)
Performer & Composer
Ernest MacMillan The great Romantic composers
1893-1973 (20th century)
Conductor, Performer & Composer
Alma Mahler The great Romantic composers
1879-1964 (20th century)
Performer & Composer
Charles Martin Loeffler The great Romantic composers
1861-1935 (Romantic)
Performer & Composer
Bohuslav Martinů The great Romantic composers
1890-1959 (20th century)
Performer & Composer
George M. Cohan The great Romantic composers
1878-1942 (20th century)
Conductor, Lyrical singer & Composer
Henri Miro The great Romantic composers
1879-1950 (20th century)
Conductor, Performer & Composer
Dimitri Mitropoulos The great Romantic composers
1896-1960 (20th century)
Conductor, Performer & Composer
Douglas Moore The great Romantic composers
1893-1969 (20th century)
Conductor & Composer
Melesio Morales The great Romantic composers
1838-1908 (Romantic)
Composer
Louis Moreau Gottschalk The great Romantic composers
1829-1869 (Romantic)
Performer & Composer
Nicolas Nabokov The great Romantic composers
1903-1978 (20th century)
Performer & Composer
Adolf Neuendorff The great Romantic composers
1843-1897 (Romantic)
Conductor, Performer & Composer
Elena Nikolaidi The great Romantic composers
1909-2002 (20th century)
Lyrical singer & Composer
Joaquín Nin-Culmell The great Romantic composers
1908-2004 (20th century)
Performer & Composer
Ervin Nyiregyházi The great Romantic composers
1903-1987 (20th century)
Performer & Composer
Ignacy Jan Paderewski The great Romantic composers
1860-1941 (20th century)
Performer & Composer
John Knowles Paine The great Romantic composers
1839-1906 (Romantic)
Performer & Composer
James Cutler Dunn Parker The great Romantic composers
1828-1916 (Romantic)
Performer & Composer
Horatio Parker The great Romantic composers
1863-1919 (Romantic)
Performer & Composer
Harry Partch The great Romantic composers
1901-1974 (20th century)
Composer
Ángela de Peralta The great Romantic composers
1845-1883 (Romantic)
Lyrical singer & Composer
Gregor Piatigorsky The great Romantic composers
1903-1976 (20th century)
Performer & Composer
Paul Pisk The great Romantic composers
1893-1990 (20th century)
Performer & Composer
Walter Piston The great Romantic composers
1894-1976 (20th century)
Conductor, Performer & Composer
Manuel Ponce The great Romantic composers
1886-1948 (20th century)
Performer & Composer
Sergei Rachmaninoff The great Romantic composers
1873-1943 (20th century)
Conductor, Performer & Composer
MasterpiecesComplete works
Alexander Reinagle The great Romantic composers
1756-1809 (Classical)
Performer & Composer
Fritz Reiner The great Romantic composers
1888-1963 (20th century)
Conductor, Performer & Composer
Alois Reiser The great Romantic composers
1884-1977 (20th century)
Conductor, Performer & Composer
Silvestre Revueltas The great Romantic composers
1899-1940 (20th century)
Conductor, Performer & Composer
Wallingford Riegger The great Romantic composers
1885-1961 (20th century)
Conductor, Performer & Composer
Richard Rodgers The great Romantic composers
1902-1979 (20th century)
Performer & Composer
Clara Kathleen Rogers The great Romantic composers
1844-1931 (Romantic)
Lyrical singer, Performer & Composer
Bernard Rogers The great Romantic composers
1893-1968 (20th century)
Performer & Composer
Sigmund Romberg The great Romantic composers
1887-1951 (20th century)
Performer & Composer
Juventino Rosas The great Romantic composers
1868-1894 (Romantic)
Conductor, Performer & Composer
Miklós Rózsa The great Romantic composers
1907-1995 (20th century)
Conductor, Performer & Composer
Dane Rudhyar The great Romantic composers
1895-1985 (20th century)
Composer
Carl Ruggles The great Romantic composers
1876-1971 (20th century)
Composer
Robert Russell Bennett The great Romantic composers
1894-1981 (20th century)
Conductor, Performer & Composer
Curt Sachs The great Romantic composers
1881-1959 (20th century)
Composer
Carlos Salzedo The great Romantic composers
1885-1961 (20th century)
Conductor, Performer & Composer
Lazare Saminsky The great Romantic composers
1882-1959 (20th century)
Composer
Luis Sandi The great Romantic composers
1905-1996 (20th century)
Composer
Samuel Sanford The great Romantic composers
1849-1910 (Romantic)
Performer & Composer
Gustave Satter The great Romantic composers
1832-1879 (Romantic)
Performer & Composer
Arnold Schoenberg The great Romantic composers
1874-1951 (20th century)
Conductor, Performer & Composer
MasterpiecesComplete works
Henry Schoenfeld The great Romantic composers
1857-1936 (Romantic)
Conductor, Performer & Composer
Sholom Secunda The great Romantic composers
1894-1974 (20th century)
Conductor & Composer
Toscha Seidel The great Romantic composers
1899-1962 (20th century)
Performer & Composer
Roger Sessions The great Romantic composers
1896-1985 (20th century)
Composer
Elie Siegmeister The great Romantic composers
1909-1991 (20th century)
Conductor & Composer
Alexander Siloti The great Romantic composers
1863-1945 (20th century)
Conductor, Performer & Composer
Nicolas Slonimsky The great Romantic composers
1894-1995 (20th century)
Conductor, Performer & Composer
Julia Smith The great Romantic composers
1905-1989 (20th century)
Performer & Composer
Eduard Sobolewski The great Romantic composers
1804-1872 (Romantic)
Conductor, Performer & Composer
Nikolai Sokoloff The great Romantic composers
1886-1965 (20th century)
Conductor, Performer & Composer
John Philip Sousa The great Romantic composers
1854-1932 (Romantic)
Conductor, Performer & Composer
Max Steiner The great Romantic composers
1888-1971 (20th century)
Conductor, Performer & Composer
Eduard Steuermann The great Romantic composers
1892-1964 (20th century)
Performer & Composer
Fritz Stiedry The great Romantic composers
1883-1968 (20th century)
Conductor & Composer
Josef Stránský The great Romantic composers
1872-1936 (20th century)
Conductor & Composer
Ignace Strasfogel The great Romantic composers
1909-1994 (20th century)
Conductor, Performer & Composer
Fyodor Stravinsky The great Romantic composers
1843-1902 (Romantic)
Lyrical singer & Composer
Igor Stravinsky The great Romantic composers
1882-1971 (20th century)
Conductor, Performer & Composer
MasterpiecesComplete works
Zoltán Székely The great Romantic composers
1903-2001 (20th century)
Performer & Composer
George Szell The great Romantic composers
1897-1970 (20th century)
Conductor, Performer & Composer
Albert Szirmai The great Romantic composers
1880-1967 (20th century)
Composer
Robert Talbot The great Romantic composers
1893-1954 (20th century)
Conductor, Performer & Composer
Deems Taylor The great Romantic composers
1885-1966 (20th century)
Composer
Alexander Tcherepnin The great Romantic composers
1899-1977 (20th century)
Conductor, Performer & Composer
Randall Thompson The great Romantic composers
1899-1984 (20th century)
Conductor, Performer & Composer
Virgil Thomson The great Romantic composers
1896-1989 (20th century)
Conductor & Composer
Dimitri Tiomkin The great Romantic composers
1894-1979 (20th century)
Conductor, Performer & Composer
Charles Tomlinson Griffes The great Romantic composers
1884-1920 (20th century)
Composer
Frank Van der Stucken The great Romantic composers
1858-1929 (Romantic)
Conductor, Performer & Composer
Louis Varney The great Romantic composers
1844-1908 (Romantic)
Composer
Joseph Vézina The great Romantic composers
1849-1924 (Romantic)
Conductor, Performer & Composer
Vincent Wallace The great Romantic composers
1812-1865 (Romantic)
Conductor, Performer & Composer
George James Webb The great Romantic composers
1803-1887 (Romantic)
Composer
Kurt Weill The great Romantic composers
1900-1950 (20th century)
Conductor, Performer & Composer
Jaromír Weinberger The great Romantic composers
1896-1967 (20th century)
Conductor, Performer & Composer
Erik W. G. Leidzén The great Romantic composers
1894-1962 (20th century)
Conductor & Composer
George Whiting The great Romantic composers
1840-1923 (Romantic)
Performer & Composer
Healey Willan The great Romantic composers
1880-1968 (20th century)
Conductor, Performer & Composer
Spencer Williams The great Romantic composers
1889-1965 (20th century)
Lyrical singer, Performer & Composer
Paul Wittgenstein The great Romantic composers
1887-1961 (20th century)
Performer & Composer
Stefan Wolpe The great Romantic composers
1902-1972 (20th century)
Composer
Harvey Worthington Loomis The great Romantic composers
1865-1930 (Romantic)
Composer
Jenő Zádor The great Romantic composers
1894-1977 (20th century)
Performer & Composer
Efrem Zimbalist The great Romantic composers
1889-1985 (20th century)
Conductor, Performer & Composer
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