The Classical Era 1730s-1810s: Rococo, Empfindsamkeit, Sonata form, opera, symphony, minuet and trio, rondo, rounded binary, scherzo, string quartet, them and variations form, Janissary style, Opera Buffa, Singspiel, Opera comique, Ballad operas
By morganp2018
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Francois Couperin
French composer
wrote in rococo or ornate style -
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Jean-Philippe Rameau
French composer and theorist
tried to establish a rational foundation for harmonic practice -
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Pietro Metastasio
Court poet in Vienna
librettist -
Pianoforte invented
by Bartolomeo Crustofori in Florence -
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Giovanni Battista Sammartini
invented symphony in Milan, Italy -
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Franz Xaver Richter
invented string quartet -
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Frederick the Great
composer
military victor
played flute -
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Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
Eldest son of J.S. Bach
primary composer of empfindsamkeit style -
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Christoph Willibald Gluck
wrote dramatic opera
changed Italian opera seria -
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Leopold Mozart
father of Wolfgang and Nannerl
violinist, author -
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Charles Burney
organist, writer, music scholar -
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Franz Joseph Haydn
primary mover in the style
didn't invent the style -
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Johann Schobert
Italian operas, church music, orchestral works
concertos and sonata-form movement -
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Johann Schobert
simulated orchestra effects in harpsichord writing -
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William Billings
one of first American composers
tanner
self taught composer -
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Antonio Salieri
court composer of Vienna
wrote operas -
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Nannerl Mozart
W. Mozart's sister
child prodigy -
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
child prodigy
died young -
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Maria Theresa von Paradis
blind
one of most renowned female composers of the time -
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Industrial Revolution
mass production
scientific advances -
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Aloysia Weber
wanted to marry Mozart
ditched him after his tour -
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American Revolution
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French Revolution