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Beginning of the Classical Period
The Classical period was known as the Age of Enlightenment, or the Age of Reason. The era spanned about seventy years (1750-1820), but in its short duration, musical practices began that have influenced music ever since. -
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Antonio Salieri
Italian composer and pedagogue. Although in his time he was one of the most appreciated composers, today he is better known for his rivalry with Mozart than for his own creative work, to the point of being the protagonist of a legend, arising during Romanticism, which accused him of having poisoned the genius of Salzburg. -
Johann Sebastian Bach Dies
Johann Sebastian Bach was a German composer, musician, conductor, chapel master, singer and teacher of the Baroque period. -
Napoleon Bonaparte
Napoleon Bonaparte was a French soldier and statesman, a republican general during the French Revolution and the Directory, and the architect of the coup d'état of 18 Brumaire that made him first consul of the Republic on November 11, 1799. -
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The Revolutionary War
the insurrection fought between 1775 and 1783 through which 13 of Great Britain's North American colonies threw off British rule to establish the sovereign United States of America, founded with the Declaration of Independence in 1776. -
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The French Revolution
The French Revolution lasted from 1789 until 1799. The Revolution precipitated a series of European wars, forcing the United States to articulate a clear policy of neutrality in order to avoid being embroiled in these European conflicts. -
Marie Antoinette death
She was executed on October 16, 1793 at the Place de la Concorde, Paris, France. While the Chapelle Expiatoire in Paris is dedicated to her and her husband, King Louis XVI, she is buried at the Basilica Cathedral of Saint Denis, France. -
Paris Conservatory of Music Founded
This institute is still offering instruction in music, dance, and drama, drawing on the traditions of the "French School." -
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Franz Schubert
He born in the vicinity of the same Vienna that welcomed Haydn , Mozart and Beethoven , he is often considered the last great representative of the classical style that those three composers brought to its maximum splendor and one of the first to manifest subjectivity and lyricism. unmistakably romantic in their music. -
The End of the Classical Period
the classical period ended before Beethoven died. This is because Beethoven was the one who ended it! At the end of his life, Beethoven’s music was so new that it had to be called something completely different