20 most famous and influential Italian composers of classical music

Here are the 20 most famous and influential Italian composers of classical music from the 16th to the 20th century. I know, some composers might be missing in this list, so feel free to comment about the ones you think that they deserve a place in this list. Enjoy! For those who are wondering: I have sorted the composers by the year of birth. That is why some pieces that have been written later may come earlier in the video. I plan to make a similar video for composers of other nationalities, but I do not know how long it will take. Here is an excerpt from Wikipedia's article about Italian classical music: The Renaissance: Most people do not think of music when they hear the term Renaissance. Yet, in the same sense that architects, painters, and sculptors of the 16th century were paying tribute to the newly rediscovered values of classical Greece, poets and musicians of that period attempted to do the same thing. The years between 1500 and 1600 are the most revolutionary period in European musical history; it is the century in which harmony was developed and the century that gave birth to opera. 17th century: The period from about 1600 to 1750 encompasses the Baroque era of music. Many important things happened in this period. One was a return to the melodic complexities of polyphony; however, the melodies ran within a modern, established system of harmony based on chords and major and minor scales. This latter element is an extension of the concept of homophonic music and allowed melodic complexity of any variance to rise to dominance over the importance of text. 18th century: From the early 18th century to the end of that century encompasses what historians call "classical music". (Note that this use of the term "classical" does not correspond to what non-historians mean when they say "classical music"—that is, all opera and symphonic music, as opposed to "popular music".) The term "classical" is appropriate for this period of music in that it marks the standardization of musical forms such as the symphony and concerto. 19th century: This is the century of Romanticism in European literature, art, and music. Romanticism in music is marked by many of the same characteristics that define that century's literature and painting: less attention to the formalities of classicism, more involvement of human passions such as love, heroism, courage, freedom, etc., all of which is a direct outgrowth of the humanism of the French Enlightenment. Italian opera tends to forsake the light-heartedness of the Comic opera for the more serious fare of Italian lyric Romanticsm. Although the ever-popular Rossini is certainly an exception to that, Italian music of the 19th century is dominated at the beginning by the likes of Bellini, Donizetti, and then, of course, for the last fifty years of the century by Giuseppe Verdi, the greatest musical icon in Italian history. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian... Here are the timestamps: 01) Da Palestrina: 00:24 02) Monteverdi: 01:38 03) Allegri: 03:22 04) Corelli: 04:48 05) A. Scarlatti: 06:21 06) Albinoni: 08:59 07) Vivaldi: 10:44 08) D. Scarlatti: 12:54 09) Tartini: 14:23 10) Pergolesi: 15:41 11) Boccherini: 17:00 12) Salieri: 18:19 13) Climenti: 19:33 14) Paganini: 20:43 15) Rossini: 22:28 16) Verdi: 23:41 17) Puccini: 25:26 18) Busoni: 26:39 19) Respighi: 29:17 20) Morricone: 31:51 And here are the recordings I used: 01)    • Kyrie - Missa Pap...   02)    • Monteverdi: Lamen...   03)    • Miserere mei   04)    • Corelli | Concert...   05)    • Flute Sonata No. ...   06)    • Adagio   07)    • The Four Seasons,...   08)    • Scarlatti: Sonata...   09)    • Concerto for Viol...   10)    • Flute Concerto in...   11)    • 미뉴엣 보케리니   12)    • Requiem in C Mino...   13)    • Sonatina in F Maj...   14)    • Niccolo Paganini ...   15)    • 03 New Philharmon...   16)    • Verdi - Requiem -...   17)    • Puccini: Turandot...   18)    • (1/2) Busoni - Pi...   19)    • Respighi's ROMAN ...   20)    • The Good, The Bad...   Italian anthem (intro/outro):    • Italy National An...   I do not own any of the recordings used in the video and do not plan to make any profits from this. Yet, if a copyright owner of any of these recordings wants me to delete this video, feel free to contact me. I will not hesitate to delete it because it is your copyright, not mine. This video is just for entertainment and education purposes!