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amusements, memes

Ten Things

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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 20th Century

  1. Philip Glass
  2. John Cage
  3. Olivier Messian
    Olivier Messian
  4. György Ligeti
  5. John Rutter
  6. Judith Weir
  7. Constant Lambert
  8. Benjamin Britten
  9. Dmitri Shostakovich
  10. Luciano Berio
amusements, memes

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 19th Century

  1. Amadeo Modigliani
    Amadeo Modigliani; Reclining Nude
  2. Piet Mondrian
  3. Jacob Epstein
  4. George Braque
  5. Constantin Brâncusi
  6. Henry Moore
  7. Paul Klee
  8. Paul Nash
  9. Henri Matisse
  10. Auguste Rodin
amusements, memes

Ten Things

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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
amusements, memes

Ten Things

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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
amusements, memes

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