I was looking for a timeline of composers of western classical music right from Hildegaard Von Bingen but I could not find an interactive one on the web. However,I found the following:
- Classical.net lists the major composers in its timeline in PDF format
- Classicfm has a much nicer timeline but it does not show all the composers. Media and text on a particular composer is included in the timeline which makes it easier to comprehend
- BBC radio4 has an interactive timeline but does not include all the composers
- I built one myself in Excel which can be downloaded here
- Carissimi’s poster is worth a buy as it shows all the composers in a 40″ by 27″ frame
- I am in the process of building the timeline using an iPad app. A first attempt can be seen here:
- Timeline JS is a Javascript based platform to view the timeline on a browser. At the moment it does not import all the 1000 rows in my table. A preliminary attempt is shown here. The Google spreadsheet used for this timeline can be downloaded here. Please make a copy of the spreadsheet.
