Classical Music Timeline: 1900 A.D. to Present

Composers who were born or died during this period

1900 Sir Arthur Sullivan dies Kurt Weill born
1901 Giuseppe Verdi dies
1906 Dmitri Shostakovich born
1908 Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov dies Olivier Messiaen born
1909 Isaac Albéniz dies
1910 Samuel Barber born
1911 Gustav Mahler dies
1912 Samuel Coleridge-Taylor dies John Cage born
1913 Benjamin Britten born
1917 Lou Harrison born
1918 Leonard Bernstein born Claude Debussy dies
1924 Gabriel Fauré dies Giacomo Puccini dies
1925 Luciano Berio born
1926 Georgi Lvovitch Catoire dies
1928 Leos Janacek dies
1932 John Corigliano born
1933 Henryk Gorecki born
1934 Peter Maxwell Davies born Sir Edward Elgar dies
1935 Alban Berg dies
1936 Ottorino Respighi dies
1937 George Gershwin dies Philip Glass born
1944 Amy Beach dies
1945 Béla Bartók dies
1949 Richard Strauss dies
1950 Kurt Weill dies
1953 Sergey Prokofiev dies
1961 Lowell Liebermann born
1962 Hanns Eisler dies
1963 Francis Poulenc dies
1964 Joseph Marx dies
1965 Edgard Varèse dies
1970 George Frederick McKay dies
1971 Igor Stravinsky dies
1975 Dmitri Shostakovich dies
1976 Benjamin Britten dies
1981 Samuel Barber dies
1982 Carl Orff dies
1990 Leonard Bernstein dies
1992 John Cage dies Olivier Messiaen dies
2003 Lou Harrison dies Luciano Berio dies