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Composer: Pietro Metastasio
Court poet in Vienna
Important librettos in 18th century
27 three-act hero operas -
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Composer: Giovanni Battista Sammartini
Innovator of Symphony in Milan in 1730 -
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Composer: Farinelli
One of the most famous Castrati in 18th century
Trained by Porpora -
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Composer: Franz Xavier Ritcher
German composer
**Innovator of the String Quartet
One of the foremost Mannheim composers -
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Prince Nikolaus J Eszterhazy
Hayden's Patron and employer until 1790 -
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Composer: CPE Bach
the eldest son of JS Bach
wrote in both baroque and classical styles
associated with Empfindsamkeit -
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Composer: Johann Stamitz
Innovator in Mannheim
helped established the symphonic genre -
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Historian: Dr. Charles Burney
Music historian
Organist who traveled Europe -
Symphony
a three or four-movement work for orchestra that innovated by Sammartino in Milan Italy -
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Composer: Franz Joseph Haydn
A primary Austrian composer who served as innovator and mover within the new classical style
106 symphonies
83 string quartet
20 operas -
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JC Bach
Worked in Milan and London
Son of Bach
influence to Mozart -
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Composer: Luigi Bocchernini
Italian Composer and cellist
prolific -
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Composer: William Billings
Most prominent composer in the New America
not a strong composer -
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Composer: Domenico Cimarosa
Italian composer
Central figure in opera
Extraordinary successful -
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Composer: Lorenzo de Ponte
Italian Librettist and poet
callorated with Mozart
moved to US and became a professor at Columbia College in NY -
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Composer: Antonio Salieri
Italian composer and teacher
Was the transition period between the Galant style and classical then again in the romantic -
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Composer: Muzio Clementi
English composer in Italian rebirth -
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Austrian composer
child prodigy
wrote in all genres
Innovated opera
best of all time