Tyrian Purple

Maestros. The royal purple of music. Getting brighter over time. That which can't be reproduced.

There are musicians and composers whose music is so distinct or perhaps relying on a talent so unique, it's nearly impossible to replicate at the level of the master who created it. Some obvious modern examples beyond Mozart might be Prince or Devon Townsend.

"plural maestros or maestri ˈmī-ˌstrē Synonyms of maestro. : a master usually in an art. especially : an eminent composer, conductor, or teacher of music."

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The Composers

Medieval Era(500-1400)

Stephen of Liège (850-920)
Fulbert of Chartres (952-1028)
Peter Abelard (1079-1142)
Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179)
Léonin (1155-1201)
Pérotin (1160-1220)
Adam de la Halle (1240-1287)
Philippe de Vitry (1291-1361)
Guillaume de Machaut (1300-1377)
Francesco Landini (1325-1397)

Renaissance Era (1400-1600)

Guillaume Dufay (1400-1474)
Johannes Ockeghem (1420-????)
Alexander Agricola (1446-1506)
Josquin Des Prez (1450-1521)
Jean Mouton (1459-1522)
Pierre de la Rue (1460-1518)
Robert Fayrfax (1464-1521)
Francisco de Peñalosa (1470-1528)
Robert Carver (1485-1570)
Clément Janequin (1485-1558)
Francesco Canova da Milano (1497-1543)
Thomas Tallis (1505-1585)
Jacques Arcadelt (1507-1568)
Giovanni Pierluigi Palestrina (1525-1594)
Francesco Guerrero (1527-1599)
Orlando de Lassus (1532-1594)
Francesco Soto de Langa (1534-1619)
Gioseffo Guami (1542-1611)
William Byrd (1549-1623)
François-Eustache Du Caurroy (1549-1609)

Baroque Era (1600-1750)

Hieronymus Praetorius (1560-1629)
John Dowland (1563-1626)
Frei Manuel Cardoso (1566-1650)
Claudio Giovanni Antonio Monteverdi (1567-1643)
Thomas Simpson (1582-1628)
Petronio Franceschini (1650-1680)
Arcangelo Corelli (1653-1713)
Henry Purcell (1659-1695)
Alessandro Scarlatti (1660-1725)
Tomaso Albinoni (1671-1750)
Antonio Lucio Vivaldi (1678-1741)
Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767)
Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683-1764)
Giuseppe Matteo Alberti (1685-1751)
George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Giuseppe Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757)
Johann Friedrich Fasch (1688-1758)
Jean Jacques-Christophe Naudot (1690-1762)
Johann Adolph Hasse (1699-1783)

Classical Era (1750-1820)

Wilhelm Friedemann Bach (1710-1784)
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714-1788)
Christoph Willibald Ritter von Gluck (1714-1787)
Johann Georg Leopold Mozart (1719-1787)
Johann Ernst Bach (1722-1777)
Johann Gottlieb Goldberg (1727-1756)
Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1806)
Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach (1732-1795)
Johann Christian Bach (1735-1782)
Antonio Salieri (1750-1825)
Muzio Clementi (1752-1832)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Franz Xaver Sussmayr (1766-1803)
Bedřich Dionys Weber (1766-1842)
Ludwig Van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Niccolo Paganini (1782-1840)
Carl Maria von Weber (1786-1826)
Gioachino Antonio Rossini (1792-1868)
Franz Peter Schubert (1797-1828)
Domenico Gaetano Maria Donizetti (1797-1848)

Romantic Era (1820-1900)

Vincenzo Bellini (1801-1835)
Louis-Hector Berlioz (1803-1869)
Johann Strauss I (1804-1849)
Jacob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)
Frederic Chopin (1810-1849)
Robert Alexander Schumann (1810-1856)
Franz Liszt (1811-1886)
Wilhelm Richard Wagner (1813-1883)
Giuseppe Fortunino Frencesco Verdi (1813-1901)
Charles François Gounod (1818-1893)
Jacques Offenbach (1819-1880)
Clara Wieck Schumann (1819-1896)
Cesar Franck (1822-1890)
Anton Joseph Bruckner (1824-1896)
Johann Strauss II (1825-1899)
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
Eduard Strauss (1835-1916)
Georges Bizet (1838-1875)
Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky (1839-1881)
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)
Antonín Dvorak (1841-1904)
Jules Massenet (1842-1912)
Edvard Hagerup Grieg (1843-1907)
Gabriel-Urbain Fauré (1845-1924)
Sir Edward William Elgar (1857-1934)
Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924)
Gustav Mahler (1860-1911)
Achille-Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
Richard Strauss (1864-1949)
Jean Sibelius (1865-1957)
Erik Satie (1866-1925)
Siegfried Wagner (1869-1930)
Alexander Nikolaevich Scriabin (1872-1915)
Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)
Sergei Vasilievitch Rachmaninoff (1873-1943)
Gustav Theodore Holst (1874-1934)

20th Century Era (1900-Present)

Arnold Franz Walter Schoenberg (1874-1951)
Charles Edward Ives (1874-1954)
Joseph Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)
Béla Bartók (1881-1945)
Artur Schnabel (1882-1951)
Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971)
Zóltan Kodály (1882-1967)
Anton Webern (1883-1945)
Alban Berg (1885-1935)
Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953)
George Gershwin (1898-1937)
Francis Poulenc (1899-1963)
Maurice Durufle (1902-1986)
Sir Lennox Berkeley (1903-1989)
Eduard Tubin (1905-1982)
Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975)
Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992)
Samuel Barber (1910-1981)
William Howard Schuman (1910-1992)
Gian Carlo Menotti (1911-2007)
Jean Françaix (1912-????)
Benjamin Britten (1913-1976)
Bernd Alois Zimmermann (1918-1970)
Ernest Tomlinson (1924-2015)
Peter Lamb (1925-2013)
Karlheinz Stockhausen (1928-2007)
William Mathias (1934-1992)
Arvo Pärt (1935-)
John Rutter (1945-)

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