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    Milestones in music

  • First phonograph recording by opera great Enrico Caruso, 1902.
  • Manhattan Opera House built in New York, 1903.
  • First recording of an opera, Verdi's Ernani, 1903.
  • First radio transmission of music, 1904.
  • Lev Theremin invents earliest electronic musical instrument, 1927.
  • First annual Newport Jazz Festival, 1954.
  • Stereophonic recordings introduced, 1958.
  • Opening of the Rock Roll Hall of Fame, Cleveland, Ohio, 1995.

    Major figures in music

  • Arnold Schoenberg (1874–1951): Austrian-born composer; see Musician Biographies.
  • Charles Ives (1874–1954): American composer; see Musician Biographies.
  • Bela Bartok (1881–1945): Hungarian composer; see Musician Biographies.
  • Edgard Varèse (1883–1965): French avant-garde composer; see Musician Biographies.
  • Sergei Prokofiev (1891–1953): Soviet composer.
  • Bessie Smith (1894–1937): American blues singer; see Musician Biographies.
  • George Gershwin (1898–1937): American composer; see Musician Biographies.
  • Lillian Hardin (1898–1971): American pianist and composer; see Musician Biographies.
  • Paul Robeson (1898–1976): American singer, actor, political activist.
  • Edward Kennedy “Duke” Ellington (1899–1974): American jazz composer and bandleader; see Musician Biographies.
  • Aaron Copland (1900–1990): American composer; see Musician Biographies.
  • Louis Armstrong (1901–1971): American jazz composer and performer; see Musician Biographies.
  • Ruth Crawford Seeger (1901–1953): composer and folk music transcriber; see Musician Biographies.
  • Earl Hines (1905–1983): American jazz pianist and composer.
  • Dmitry Shostakovich (1906–1975): Soviet composer.
  • Benny Goodman (1909–1986): American clarinetist and jazz bandleader.
  • Woody Guthrie (1912–1967): American folk singer.
  • Mahalia Jackson (1912–1972): American gospel singer.
  • Billie Holiday (1915–1959): American blues singer.
  • Thelonious Monk (1917–1982): American jazz pianist and composer; see Musician Biographies.
  • Dizzy Gillespie (1917–1993): American trumpeter.
  • Leonard Bernstein (1918–1990): American composer and conductor; see Musician Biographies.
  • Pete Seeger (b. 1919): New York City urban folk singer; see Musician Biographies.
  • Charlie Parker (1920–1955): American jazz musician; see Musician Biographies.
  • Charles Mingus (1923–1979): American jazz bassist and composer.
  • Ravi Shankar (b. 1920): Indian sitar virtuoso and composer; see Musician Biographies.
  • Bill Haley (1925–1981): American rock bandleader and composer.
  • BB King (b. 1925): influential blues musician; see Musician Biographies.
  • John Coltrane (1926–1967): jazz saxophonist; see Musician Biographies.
  • Miles Davis (1926–1991): American jazz musician; see Musician Biographies.
  • Miles Davis (1926–1991): American jazz trumpeter, composer, bandleader.
  • Stephen Sondheim (b. 1930): American musical theater composer.
  • Elvis Presley (1935–1977): American rock-and-roll singer; see Musician Biographies.
  • Steve Reich (b. 1936): American minimalist composer; see Musician Biographies.
  • John Lennon (1940–1980): English pop musician and composer.
  • Frank Zappa (1940–1993): American rock musician, bandleader, composer.
  • Bob Dylan (b. 1941): American folk singer; see Musician Biographies.
  • Bob Marley (1945–1981): Jamaican reggae musician.
  • Michael Jackson (b. 1958): American rock singer and songwriter.

    Other historic figures

  • Sigmund Freud (1856–1939): Austrian neurologist, founder of psychoanalysis.
  • Joseph Conrad (1857–1924): English novelist.
  • Alfred North Whitehead (1861–1947): English mathematician and philosopher.
  • Edvard Munch (1863–1944): Norwegian painter.
  • Alfred Stieglitz (1864–1946): American photographer.
  • Frank Lloyd Wright (1869–1959): American architect.
  • Mahatma Gandhi (1869–1948): Indian nationalist and pacifist.
  • Orville Wright (1871–1948): American aircraft pioneer.
  • Bertrand Russell (1872–1970): British philosopher.
  • Willa Cather (1873–1947): American novelist and short story writer.
  • Winston Churchill (1874–1965): British statesman.
  • Robert Frost (1874–1963): American poet.
  • Thomas Mann (1875–1955): German novelist; Nobel Prize 1929.
  • D. W. Griffith (1875–1948): American director of 484 films.
  • Jack London (1876–1916): American novelist.
  • Hermann Hesse (1877–1946): German author; Nobel Prize 1946.
  • Martin Buber (1878–1965): Austrian Jewish philosopher.
  • Carl Sandburg (1878–1967): American poet.
  • Albert Einstein (1879–1955): German physicist; Nobel Prize, 1921.
  • Pablo Picasso (1881–1973): Spanish-born artist, active chiefly in France.
  • James Joyce (1882–1941): Irish novelist.
  • Virginia Woolf (1882–1941): English novelist and critic.
  • Edward Hopper (1882–1967): American painter.
  • Benito Mussolini (1883–1945): Italian fascist dictator.
  • Franz Kafka (1883–1924): German writer.
  • D. H. Lawrence (1885–1930): English novelist.
  • Edna St. Vincent Millet (1892–1950): American poet.
  • Sinclair Lewis (1895–1951): American novelist, Noble Prize, 1930.
  • Oskar Kokoschka (1886–1980): Austrian Expressionist painter.
  • Diego Rivera (1886–1957): Mexican painter and muralist.
  • Le Corbusier (1887–1965): French architect.
  • Georgia O’Keefe (1887–1986): American painter.
  • Marc Chagall (1887–1985): Russian-born French painter.
  • T. S. Eliot (1888–1965): American poet.
  • Eugene O’Neill (1888–1953): American playwright.
  • Adolf Hitler (1889–1945): Nazi dictator.
  • Martha Graham (1893–1991): American dancer, choreographer, teacher, director.
  • Mao Tse-tung (1893–1976): founder of Chinese Communist Party, leader People’s Republic of China.
  • F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940): American novelist.
  • Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961): American novelist; Pulitzer Prize, 1952.
  • Martin Heidegger (1889–1969): German philosopher.
  • Vladimir Nabakov (1899–1977): Russian-born American novelist.
  • Alfred Hitchcock (1899–1980): English-born American film director.
  • Enrico Fermi (1901–1954): Italian physicist; Nobel Prize, 1938.
  • John Steinbeck (1902–1968): American novelist; Pulitzer Prize, 1940.
  • George Orwell (1903–1950): English author.
  • Graham Greene (1904–1991): English novelist.
  • Salvador Dali (1904–1989): Spanish painter.
  • J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904–1967): American nuclear physicist.
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Source:  OpenStax, Music appreciation: its language, history and culture. OpenStax CNX. Jun 03, 2015 Download for free at https://legacy.cnx.org/content/col11803/1.1
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