• Wrote 4 symphonies
• The most versatile and accomplished composer after Beethoven
• he was a "classicist"
• Went back to sonata form
• Also wrote string quartets, piano sonatas, and choral music
• Wrote Absolute music
• used contrapuntal complexity
• much use of hemiola

• "Caecilian" movement (attempt to get back to styles of the 16th century, Palestrina counterpoint, gregorian chant)
• Most of his symphonies start with "nebula"- elemental theme, primordial
• remembered mostly for his symphonies and sacred compositions
• Wrote ten symphonie(one is #0)
• Until late is his career his reputation rested mainly on his improvisatory skills at the organ

• Austrian composer
• Masterful orchestrator
• "progressive" tonality
• 9 symphonies
• 1897-1907 Vienna Opera Music Director
• Met. Opera 1907-09
• NY Phil. 1909-10
• Lied

"extended" tonality

Free chromaticism

all 12 pitches equal

• Consummation of German Romantic Opera
• Creation of new musical genre- The Music Drama
• Carried harmony to a point nearing dissolution of tonality (chromatic harmony)
• One of the only composers whose writings were influential outside music

• Hungarian pianist, composer, conductor, and teacher
• evolved method of "thematic transformation"
• Invented the symphonic poem for orchestra
• Greatest piano virtuoso of his time, and possibly all time
• Used technique and concert personality to spread, through transcriptions, knowledge of other composer's works

• Italian violinist, and composer
• Famous for his virtuosity as a violinist

• wrote ten operas
• 6 symphonies
• 3 piano concertos

• wrote 9 symphonies
• many other pieces

• new name for the previous concert overture
• programmatic pieces that are traditionally one movement long