The great composers from Johann Sebastian Bach and George Frideric Handel of the "Baroque era" of flowery emotional music; to the "classical style" music (middle of 1700s through the early 1800s) of composers like Joseph Haydn, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; to Ludwig van Beethoven; FranzSchubert and Felix Mendelssohn; to the " romantic period" of Hector Berlioz, Frederic Chopin, Robert Schumann; Johannes Brahms, Niccolo Paganini, Franz Liszt, Richard Wagner, Richard Strauss, Gustav Mahler, Antonin Dvorak, Jan Sibelius and others. The pictures of American composers of the "modern" 20th century music include George Gershwin, Aaron Copland, Leonard Bernstein, John Adams and others.