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the bourgeois gentleman
the bourgeois gentleman is a comedy-ballet by Molière in five acts and in prose, premiered by Molière's company on October 14, 1670 at the court of Louis XIV in the castle of Chambord. The music is by Jean-Baptiste Lully; the choreography of -
the beginning of classicism
Classicism arose influenced by the ideas of the Renaissance and also shares a time with the French Enlightenment, whose great symbol was the French Revolution of 1789. -
The American War of Independence
The American War of Independence was a war that pitted the original Thirteen British Colonies in North America against the Kingdom of Great Britain. It happened between 1775 and 1781, -
Maria Anna Angelika Katharina Kauffmann
Maria Anna Angelika Katharina Kauffmann was a Swiss painter of the Central European neoclassical period who devoted herself to portraiture. She was one of the founders of the Royal Academy of Arts in London. -
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the french revolution
ON July 14, 1789, the people of France took the Bastille fortress, starting one of the most important revolutions in history. Not only because of its political character, but because of its legacy for the rights of freedom, security and property. -
tonal center
The music of classicism evolves towards an extreme balance between harmony and melody. Very famous composers are Haydn, Mozart and the first Beethoven (Beethoven represents a twist in the evolution of tonal music, going further and further from the so-called tonal center. -
the end of the classical period
El Clasicismo es un periodo que se enmarca entre el Barroco y el Romanticismo. Suele fecharse convencionalmente entre 1750 (muerte de J.S. Bach) y 1827 (año en el que muere Beethoven). Es una etapa corta que marca la transición de la Edad Moderna a la Edad Contemporánea. -
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The fountain
The Fountain, also known as The Spring, is a painting by the painter Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres in 1856, a work typical of neoclassicism and one of the best known of the artist.