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Buffa Opera
It is an opera with a comic theme. It was developed in Naples in the first half of the 18th century. From there it spread to Rome and northern Italy. Its stylistic counterpart is opera seria. -
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart, better known as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, was a composer, pianist, conductor and professor at the former Archbishopric of Salzburg, a master of Classicism, considered one of the most influential and outstanding musicians in history. -
Mozart's first symphony
Mozart, being a child prodigy, wrote his first symphony at age 8. This was after already composing several minuets. -
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Napoleón Bonaparte
Napoleon I Bonaparte was a French military officer and statesman, republican general during the French Revolution and the Directory, and architect of the coup d'état of the 18th of Brumaire which made him the first consul of the Republic on 11 November 1799. -
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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. -
Mozart's " The Marriage of Figaro" Premiered
This opera became one of Mozart's most successful works. The overture is especially famous and is often played as a concert piece. -
French Revolution
The French Revolution was a social and political conflict, with several periods of violence, that convulsed France and, by extension of its implications, other nations in Europe, pitting supporters and opponents of the system known as the Ancien Régime against each other. -
Juan Crisóstomo de Arriaga
Juan Crisóstomo de Arriaga was a Spanish composer of classical music, nicknamed the "Spanish Mozart" or "Basque Mozart", due to the great musical gifts he displayed as a child, like Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, as well as his premature death at the age of nineteen.