Travel back in time with this composer timeline. This site allows you to choose a composer based on the time period. Learn about the composer and listen to examples of the composer's works of music.

This is a timeline of composers; take an interactive journey through our timeline of classical music composers and see what was happening during the composers' lives and how it influenced their music.

A PDF timeline of composers in the Gothic, Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque periods.

The University of Virginia provides a short discussion of the psychedelic music of the 60s. Also contains cover art from twelve albums from this period. Click on the cover to see a bigger picture.

A German composer and pianist. He is considered to have been the most crucial figure in the transitional period between the Classical and Romantic eras in classical music.