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 Famous Great Composers Who Died Childless

• Ludwig van Beethoven: Had no children (though he fought a bitter legal battle for custody of his nephew, Karl).
• Johannes Brahms: Never married and had no children.
• Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Died childless.
• Maurice Ravel: Never married and died without children.
• Antonio Vivaldi: Priests in holy orders, had no children.
• George Frideric Handel: Never married and had no children.
• Franz Schubert: Never married and had no children.
• Frédéric Chopin: Had no children (though he had a long-term relationship with

The 50 greatest operas of all time are organized below by historical era and timeline:

The Baroque Era (Early 1600s – Mid 1700s)

1. L'Orfeo (1607) – Claudio Monteverdi
2. Dido and Aeneas (1689) – Henry Purcell
3. Giulio Cesare (1724) – George Frideric Handel
4. Serse (1738) – George Frideric Handel

The Classical Era & Operatic Reform (Mid – Late 1700s)

5. Orfeo ed Euridice (1762) – Christoph Willibald Gluck
6. Idomeneo (1781) – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
7. The Marriage of Figaro (Le nozze di Figaro) (1786) – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
8. Don Giovanni (1787) – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
9. Così fan tutte (1790) – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
10. The Magic Flute (Die Zauberflöte) (1791) – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

The Romantic & Bel Canto Eras (Early – Late 1800s)

11. Fidelio (1805) – Ludwig van Beethoven
12. The Barber of Seville (Il barbiere di Siviglia) (1816) – Gioachino Rossini
13. Der Freischütz (1821) – Carl Maria von Weber
14. Norma (1831) – Vincenzo Bellini
15. L'elisir d'amore (1832) – Gaetano Donizetti
16. Lucia di Lammermoor (1835) – Gaetano Donizetti
17. The Bartered Bride (1866) – Bedřich Smetana
18. Les Troyens (1863) – Hector Berlioz
19. Boris Godunov (1874) – Modest Mussorgsky
20. Carmen (1875) – Georges Bizet
21. Eugene Onegin (1879) – Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
22. The Queen of Spades (1890) – Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

The Italian Masters: Verdi & Puccini

23. Rigoletto (1851) – Giuseppe Verdi
24. Il trovatore (1853) – Giuseppe Verdi
25. La traviata (1853) – Giuseppe Verdi
26. Don Carlos (1867) – Giuseppe Verdi
27. Aida (1871) – Giuseppe Verdi
28. Otello (1887) – Giuseppe Verdi
29. Falstaff (1893) – Giuseppe Verdi
30. La bohème (1896) – Giacomo Puccini
31. Tosca (1900) – Giacomo Puccini
32. Madama Butterfly (1904) – Giacomo Puccini
33. Turandot (1926) – Giacomo Puccini

The High German Romantics (Wagner & Strauss)

34. Lohengrin (1850) – Richard Wagner
35. Tristan und Isolde (1865) – Richard Wagner
36. Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (1868) – Richard Wagner
37. The Ring Cycle (Der Ring des Nibelungen) (1876) – Richard Wagner
38. Parsifal (1882) – Richard Wagner
39. Salome (1905) – Richard Strauss
40. Elektra (1909) – Richard Strauss
41. Der Rosenkavalier (1911) – Richard Strauss

20th Century & Modern Masterpieces

42. Pagliacci (1892) – Ruggero Leoncavallo
43. Pelléas et Mélisande (1902) – Claude Debussy
44. Jenůfa (1904) – Leoš Janáček
45. Bluebeard's Castle (1918) – Béla Bartók
46. Wozzeck (1925) – Alban Berg
47. Porgy and Bess (1935) – George Gershwin
48. Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk (1934) – Dmitri Shostakovich
49. Peter Grimes (1945) – Benjamin Britten
50. The Rake's Progress (1951) – Igor Stravinsky