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Ten Things

This year our Ten Things column each month is alternating between composers and artists a century at a time from pre-1500 to 20th century. As always, there’s no guarantee you will have heard of them all!

Ten Composers Born in 19th Century

  1. Bedrich Smetena
  2. Leoš Janacek
    Leoš Janacek
  3. Jean Sibelius
  4. Claude Debussy
  5. Sergei Prokofiev
  6. Carl Orff
  7. Richard Wagner
  8. Maurice Ravel
  9. Igor Stravinsky
  10. Erik Satie

Ten Things

This year our Ten Things column each month is alternating between composers and artists a century at a time from pre-1500 to 20th century. As always, there’s no guarantee you will have heard of them all!

Ten Artists Born in 18th Century

  1. John Constable
  2. JMW Turner
  3. Jean-Honoré Fragonard
  4. John Sell Cotman
    John Sell Cotman; Windmill
  5. John Crome
  6. François Boucher
  7. Giovanni Battista Piranesi
  8. William Blake
  9. Katsushika Hokusai
  10. Antonio Canova

Ten Things

This year our Ten Things column each month is alternating between composers and artists a century at a time from pre-1500 to 20th century. As always, there’s no guarantee you will have heard of them all!

Ten Composers Born in 18th Century

  1. Joseph Haydn
  2. Ludwig van Beethoven
  3. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  4. CPE Bach
  5. Franz Schubert
  6. Antonio Salieri
    Joseph Willibrord Mähler
    Portrait of Antonio Salieri
  7. William Boyce
  8. Giovanni Battista Sammartini
  9. Niccolò Paganini
  10. Carl Maria von Weber

Ten Things

This year our Ten Things column each month is alternating between composers and artists a century at a time from pre-1500 to 20th century. As always, there’s no guarantee you will have heard of them all!

Ten Artists Born in 17th Century

  1. Claude Lorrain
  2. Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
  3. Willem van der Velde the Younger
    Willem van der Velde the Younger
    Calm: Fishing Boats under Sail
  4. Johannes Vermeer
  5. Wenceslaus Hollar
  6. Aelbert Cuyp
  7. Pieter de Hooch
  8. Antoine Watteau
  9. William Hogarth
  10. Peter Lely

Ten Things

This year our Ten Things column each month is alternating between composers and artists a century at a time from pre-1500 to 20th century. As always, there’s no guarantee you will have heard of them all!

Ten Composers Born in 17th Century

  1. George Frideric Handel
  2. Jean-Philippe Rameau
  3. JS Bach
  4. Jean-Baptiste Lully
  5. Dieterich Buxtehude
  6. Domenico Scarlatti
    Domingo Antonio Velasco
    Portrait of Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757)
  7. Pavel Josef Vejvanovský
  8. Joan Cererols
  9. Jean-François Dandrieu
  10. François Couperin