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Opera buffa (start of classical period)
Opera buffa (satire opera) starts to develop in Italy. -
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Mozart
One of the greatest musicians in the history of music. Composed 68 symphonies, some of them are the most famous pieces of music in the world. -
Mozart composed his first symphony.
He was a child prodigy at age 8, known as wunderkid. -
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Napoleon Bonaparte
He was a French dictator that tried to start an empire as big as the Roman Empire. -
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Beethoven
Ludwig van Beethoven was a German composer, conductor, pianist and piano teacher. His musical legacy spans, chronologically, from Classicism to the beginnings of Romanticism. -
The marriage of Figaro by Mozart
The Marriage of Figaro is an opera buffa in four acts with music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to a libretto in Italian by Lorenzo da Ponte, based on the play by Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais La folle journée, ou Le mariage de Figaro. -
French revolution
The French Revolution was a social and political conflict, with several periods of violence that convulsed france and, by extension of it's implications, other nations in europe, pitting supporters and opponents of the system known as ancient regime against eachother. -
Muzio Clementi
Muzio Filippo Filippo Vincenzo Francesco Saverio Clementi was an Italian pianist, classical composer, piano maker and music publisher, recognized as the first to write specifically for piano. He is best known for his Sonatinas and his collection of piano etudes Gradus ad Parnassum.