Classical

Originating Location: Europe

Originating Era: Very, Very Early.

Baroque Era

 * Johann Sebastian Bach
 * George Friderich Handel
 * Antonio Vivaldi

Clssical Era
Although the other eras are lumped together in in classical, you might say that this is the most classical.
 * Ludwig van Beethoven
 * Joseph Haydn
 * Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Romantic

 * Ludwig van Beethoven is usually considered classical, but also the first true romantic.
 * Hecort Berlioz
 * Johannes Brahms
 * Frederic Chopin
 * Antonin Dvorak
 * Edward Elgar
 * Evard Grieg
 * Franz Lizst
 * Felix Mendelssohn
 * Sergei Rachmaninov
 * Franz Schubert
 * Robert Schumann
 * Jean Sibelius
 * Johann Strauss I
 * Johann Strauss II
 * Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
 * Niccolo Paganini
 * Giuseppe Verdi
 * Richard Wagner


 * Igor Stravinsky


 * John Cage

Key Albums

 * Igor Stravinsky - The Firebird Suite:Igor Stravinsky

Genre Description
Classical is the granddaddy of all "serious" music. It's a huge blanket term for basically all forms of serious music, typically performed orchestrally, but not necessarily -- there are many classical pieces for solo piano or harpsichord, for example. Most people think of classical music being written centuries ago, but there is still classical music being written today that is considered part of this genre. A lot of 20th/21st Century classical, however, is much more experimental than it was before (although, it could be argued successfully that at the time, classical music of the, say, 17th Century was just as experimental as it is today -- it's just that we've had centuries to get used to it and build on that.)

Artists in this genre

 * Terre Thaemlitz
 * Elvis Costello
 * Frank Zappa

Labels in this genre

 * BIS
 * BMG
 * Capitol
 * Columbia
 * Deutsche Harmonia Mundi
 * EMI
 * Harmonia Mundi France
 * MCA
 * Mercury
 * PolyGram
 * Sony
 * Warner Brothers