French Composers
I’ve been listening to a lot of French piano music, lately. To get a better picture of the development of the music, here’s a timeline of a selection of French composers and others for context, made in Time.Graphics.
| François Couperin | (1668-1733) |
| Jean-Philippe Rameau | (1683-1764) |
| Felix Mendelssohn | (1809-1847) |
| Frédéric Chopin | (1810-1849) |
| Franz Liszt | (1811-1886) |
| César Franck | (1822-1890) |
| Camille Saint-Saëns | (1835-1921) |
| Jules Massenet | (1842-1912) |
| Edvard Grieg | (1843–1907) |
| Gabriel Fauré | (1845-1924) |
| Claude Debussy | (1862-1918) |
| Erik Satie | (1866-1925) |
| Maurice Ravel | (1875-1937) |
| Darius Milhaud | (1892-1974) |
| Francis Poulenc | (1899-1963) |
| Olivier Messiaen | (1908-1992) |