Timeline of trends in French music

Time line for Music of France

**fl c 1150s Léonin flourished
**c 1201 Léonin died
**fl c 1200 Pérotin flourished
**1237 Adam de la Halle born
**c 1280 "Jeu de Robin et Marion" (Adam de la Halle) written
**1281 Philippe de Vitry born
**1288 Adam de la Halle died

* The Fourteenth Century
**1300 Guillaume de Machaut born
**1361 Philippe de Vitry died
**1365 "Messe de Nostre Dame" (Guillaume de Machaut) written
**1377 Guillaume de Machaut died
**1397 Guillaume Dufay born

* The Fifteenth Century
**c 1400 Gilles Binchois born
**1410 Johannes Ockeghem born
**c 1430 Antoine Busnois born
**c 1450 Josquin des Prez born
**1452 Pierre de La Rue born
**1460 Gilles Binchois died
**1474 Guillaume Dufay died
**c 1485 Clément Janequin born
**1492 Antoine Busnois died
**1497 Johannes Ockeghem died

* The Sixteenth Century
**1503 Miserere (Josquin) written
**1515 "Missa Pange lingua" (Josquin) written
**1521 Josquin des Prez died
**1518 Pierre de La Rue died
**1558 Clément Janequin died

* The Seventeenth Century
**1632 Jean-Baptiste Lully born
**1643 Marc-Antoine Charpentier born
**1656 Marin Marais born
**1668 François Couperin born
**1683 Jean-Philippe Rameau born
**1676 Atys (Lully) written
**1687 Jean-Baptiste Lully died
**1690 "Te Deum" (Marc-Antoine Charpentier) written

* The Eighteenth Century
**1704 Marc-Antoine Charpentier died
**1714 Opéra-Comique established
**1728 Marin Marais died
**1733 François Couperin died
**1736 "Les Indes galantes" (Rameau) written
**1763 Étienne Méhul born
**1764 Jean-Philippe Rameau died
**1775 François-Adrien Boieldieu born
**1782 Daniel Auber born
**1791 Ferdinand Hérold born
**1799 Fromental Halévy born

* The Nineteenth Century
**1803 Hector Berlioz born
**1803 Adolphe Adam born
**1817 Étienne Méhul died
**1818 Charles Gounod born
**1822 César Franck born
**1823 Édouard Lalo born
**1828 "La Fille Mal Gardée" (Ferdinand Hérold) written
**1830 "Symphonie fantastique" (Berlioz) written
**1833 Ferdinand Hérold died
**1834 François-Adrien Boieldieu died
**1835 Camille Saint-Saëns born
**1836 Léo Delibes born
**1838 Georges Bizet born
**1841 Emmanuel Chabrier born
**1842 Jules Massenet born
**1843 "Le Carnaval romain" (Berlioz) written
**1844 Charles-Marie Widor born
**1845 Gabriel Fauré born
**1848 Henri Duparc (composer) born
**1851 Vincent d'Indy born
**1856 Adolphe Adam died
**1858 "Les Troyens" (Berlioz) written
**1859 "Faust (opera)" (Gounod) written
**1860 Gustave Charpentier born
**1862 Fromental Halévy died
**1862 "Béatrice et Bénédict" (Berlioz) written
**1863 "Les pêcheurs de perles" (Bizet) written
**1866 Erik Satie born
**1862 Claude Debussy born
**1869 Hector Berlioz died
**1869 Albert Roussel born
**1870 "Coppélia" (Delibes) written
**1871 Daniel Auber died
**1874 "Symphonie Espagnole" (Lalo) written
**1875 Georges Bizet died
**1875 Maurice Ravel born
**1875 "Carmen" (Bizet) written
**1877 "Samson and Delilah (opera)" (Saint-Saens) written
**1879 Joseph Canteloube born
**1881 Orchestre Lamoureux founded
**1883 Edgard Varèse born
**1883 "España" (Chabrier) written
**1884 "Manon" (Massenet) written
**1886 "Symphony No. 3 (Saint-Saëns)" written
**1886 "Violin Sonata in A major" (Franck) written
**1887 "Symphonie pour orgue No. 5" (Widor) written
**1888 "Gymnopédie" No 1 (Satie) written
**1888 "Le roi d'Ys" (Lalo) written
**1890 "Clair de Lune" (Debussy) written
**1891 Léo Delibes died
**1890 "Requiem (Fauré)" written
**1890 César Franck died
**1892 Édouard Lalo died
**1892 Darius Milhaud born
**1893 Charles Gounod died
**1894 Emmanuel Chabrier died
**1894 "Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun" (Debussy) written
**1897 "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" (Dukas) written

* The Twentieth Century
**1900 "Louise (opera)" (Gustave Charpentier) written
**1903 "String Quartet (Ravel)" written
**1905 "Introduction and Allegro" (Ravel) written
**1908 Olivier Messiaen born
**1908 Stéphane Grappelli born
**1908 "Rapsodie espagnole" (Ravel) written
**1908 "Golliwogg's Cakewalk" (Debussy) written
**1910 "La fille aux cheveux de lin" (Debussy) written
**1912 Jules Massenet died
**1912 "Daphnis et Chloé" (Ravel) written
**1915 Édith Piaf born
**1917 "Parade (ballet)" (Satie) written
**1918 Claude Debussy died
**1920 "La Valse" (Ravel) written
**1921 Camille Saint-Saëns died
**1924 Gabriel Fauré died
**1925 Erik Satie died
**1927 "Amériques" (Varese) written
**1928 "Boléro" (Ravel) written
**1930 "Chants d'Auvergne" (Canteloube) written
**1931 Vincent d'Indy died
**1931 "Ionisation (Varèse)" written
**1932 "Concerto for Two Pianos" (Poulenc) written
**1933 Henri Duparc (composer) died
**1934 Jacques Loussier born
**1937 Maurice Ravel died
**1937 Charles-Marie Widor died
**1937 Albert Roussel died
**1938 "Organ Concerto" (Poulenc) written
**1942 Jean-Luc Ponty born
**1946 "La Vie en rose" (Piaf) released
**1948 Turangalîla-Symphonie (Messiaen) written
**1956 Gustave Charpentier died
**1956 "Non, je ne regrette rien" (Piaf) released
**1956 "Improvisations (Stéphane Grappelli album)" released
**1957 Joseph Canteloube died
**1963 Édith Piaf died
**1965 Edgard Varèse died
**1973 "Mekanïk Destruktïw Kommandöh" (Magma (band)) released
**1974 Darius Milhaud died
**1977 "Enigmatic Ocean" (Jean-Luc Ponty) released
**1992 Olivier Messiaen died
**1997 Stéphane Grappelli died