gantt
    title 1650–1950
    dateFormat YYYY
    axisFormat %Y
    tickInterval 20year

    section Barocco
    Corelli         :1653, 1713
    Vivaldi         :1678, 1741
    Handel          :1685, 1759
    Bach            :1685, 1750
    Scarlatti       :1685, 1757

    section Classicismo
    Haydn           :1732, 1809
    Mozart          :1756, 1791
    Beethoven       :1770, 1827

    section Romanticismo
    Paganini        :1782, 1840
    Rossini         :1792, 1868
    Schubert        :1797, 1828
    Donizetti       :1797, 1848
    Bellini         :1801, 1835
    Mendelssohn     :1809, 1847
    Schumann        :1810, 1856
    Chopin          :1810, 1849
    Liszt           :1811, 1886
    Verdi           :1813, 1901
    Wagner          :1813, 1883
    Brahms          :1833, 1897
    Bizet           :1838, 1875
    Mussorgsky      :1839, 1881
    Tchaikovsky     :1840, 1893
    Dvořák          :1841, 1904
    Grieg           :1843, 1907

    section Tardo Romanticismo e Novecento
    Puccini         :1858, 1924
    Mahler          :1860, 1911
    Debussy         :1862, 1918
    Strauss         :1864, 1949
    Rachmaninoff    :1873, 1943
    Schönberg       :1874, 1951