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P. Metastasio
Court port in Vienna, librettist, set standard for opera style circa 1750 -
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C. Burney
Organist, amateur composer, writer and music scholar he wrote many books on music -
First Viennese school
Three main classical composers: Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven (and Schubert but he’s not classical) -
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The Classical Era
Homophony, melodies favored symmetry, diatonic harmony, larger forms, emotional balance and restraint, tonic and dominant movement -
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The Rococo Style
Not really a part of the classical period
Ornate style: scrolls were used, F. Couperin wrote these a lot
Also used trills, turns and grace notes -
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F. Haydn
Composer, composed many string quartets, one of the three main classical composers
He wrote 104 symphonies -
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G. Pasisello
Italian composer, wrote 94 operas -
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W. Billings
One of the first American composers, a tanner, taught himself to compose -
String Quartet
Important chamber group, Haydn was a very important composer of this genre -
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A. Salieri
Successful court composer in Vienna, composed many operas in Italian German and French -
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Maria Anna Mozart
Nannerl
Wolfgangs sister, also a child prodigy and accomplished female composer -
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W. Mozart
Child prodigy, musician and composer, he knew he was really good, he could write down music without any mistakes
Showed that you can write German opera -
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M. Paradis
Accomplished female composer and excelled pianist and organist, she was blind -
Opera Buffa
Comic operas;
Le nozze di figaro (1786)
Cody Fan Tutte (1790)
Don Giovanni (1787) -
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Industrial Revolution
Made mass production possible -
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L. Beethoven
Fantastic composer, wrote in the classical era and romantic era, wrote sonatas, symphonies, concertos and quartets, was hard of hearing, not fully deaf -
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The American Revolution
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First patented version of a piano
In London -
Turkish Janissary Style
Popular in Vienna during Haydn and Mozart’s life in the 1780s/90s -
Mozart four Horn Concertos
Prominent and widely known horn concertos
Horn Concerto No. 1 in D major, K. 412
Horn Concerto No. 2 in E-flat major, K. 417
Horn Concerto No. 3 in E-flat major, K. 447
Horn Concerto No. 4 in E-flat major, K. 495 -
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The French Revolution
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Haydn’s Trumpet Concerto in E-flat Major
3 movements: Allegro, Andante, Allegro
Sonata rondo form