Talk:List of classical music composers

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Would anybody mind if I unlinked all the years on this page? I don't think they add a great deal, and they make "related changes" [1] much less valuable as a kind of selective recent changes (it's flooded with changes to year articles as it stands). --Camembert

No, I don't mind. I think the most important thing here is the obvious issue - a consistent format for all of the entries. Personally, I find the list easier to read without hyperlinked years. I also think the spacing issue should be addressed. Is it (year_-_year) or is it (year-year) ? I think the first format is slightly superior. Physicist 15:15, 6 Apr 2004 (UTC)

What's more, it's the format we recommend in the Manual of Style for biographical entries (actually, it also to link dates there, but in biographical articles, the "related changes" thing isn't really an issue). So I'll change all the entries here to match that, and, as there haven't been any objections, I'll unlink the dates too. --Camembert

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[edit] Crossover artists?

I looked for Monteverdi under Renaissance music, but he is under Baroque. Of course, he did both. Should he be listed under both too? Regebro 09:36, 3 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Absolutely. It's hard to think of a better example of someone who wrote in both styles. He's listed on both the Renaissance music and Baroque music pages, last time I looked. Antandrus 14:32, 3 Oct 2004 (UTC)
I agree, "double" listing is completely appropriate, as these categories are not mutually exhaustive. Hyacinth 19:31, 3 Oct 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Discrepancies with the musical timelines

I've only noticed one, and that's Paganini, oddly listed as Classical on the timelines. As far as I'm aware while using some techniques from earlier times he was generally accepted as being Romantic? If I'm wrong then this page could have him added in Classical (as well) for consistency, if nothing else. --Thomas 23:28, 29 Oct 2004 (UTC)

He's a Romantic Era composer. The "Age of Virtuosity" was a defining Romantic Era event; the Alkans, Paganinis, Kalkbrenners, Thalbergs, Liszts and others were all part of one of the most significant cultural trends in 19th century Europe. Paganini was definitely "Romantic," if we are forced to categorize, IMHO. Antandrus 01:01, 30 Oct 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Nice article

Don't you have a listing by country?

Julepix

You can do it by category (Category:French composers, Category:German composers), and in some cases there are lists (List of Italian composers, etc.) I'm not sure if we have a list of lists though. Here is a good place to start: Category:Lists of composers. Cheers, Antandrus (talk) 00:43, 9 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Mahler

Could Gustav Mahler be included in this timeline? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 198.24.5.12 (talk) 15:41, 30 January 2007 (UTC).

[edit] Romantisch

wo ist Brahms? --emerson7 | Talk 18:29, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] C.M. Von weber & Mozart

I remembered my Piano teacher saying that C.M. Von Weber was the Father of the women who married Mozart, And the timline, it says Mozart was older than him, would some one look into this? Thanks~Noodler450

[edit] Unsearchable illustrations

<sarcasm style="light">Does anyone have an OCR searching browser plugin?</sarcasm> There is a vast amount of textual detail presented here as illustrations, and as such, it's unsearchable. The composers' names are listed in the breakout era pages, but searching for a single name in several different pages is difficult. My request is for increased searchability, though this may be accomplished in two ways: 1. by repeating the information here as text, meaning that this article is the one-stop shop for finding which era a composer belongs to (and I believe that's the intent), or 2. by going to every single composer's biography and explicitly stating the era(s) that composer belongs to in each introduction. The latter should be undertaken anyway, because as they stand, many composers' biographies are incomplete, with no mention at all of their era(s). Thanks! --Rfsmit 18:54, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Debussy

Would anyone want to add Debussy to this list? I feel he should be listed, and I would add him if I could format it without messing everything up. 72.79.63.167 (talk) 15:42, 6 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Arthur Sullivan

I see that this list has Edward German, but not the much better-known and more prolific Arthur Sullivan. -- Ssilvers (talk) 12:45, 9 April 2008 (UTC)