Timeline #3 Classical Era (1730's-1810's)

By gonzobear85

  • Libretto/Libretti

  • invention of the “first” pianoforte by Bartolomeo Cristofori

  • Cosmic Opera

  • Treatise on harmony

  • Bartolomeo Cristofori 1655-1732

  • Francois Couperin (1668-1733)

  • The 4th movement (minuet) was added

  • The 4th movement (minuet) was added

  • Invention of Symphony

  • String Quartets chamber genre introduced

  • Music target toward middle and upper class

  • Empfindsamkeit

  • C.P.E. Bach’s keyboard treatise

  • The rococo style (1730-1760)

  • Opera Buffa

  • Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683-1764)

  • Johann Schobert (1735-1767)

  • Giuseppe Tartini (1692-1770)

  • Harpsichords diminished in popularity once the more modern piano emerged

  • Harpsichords diminished in popularity once the more modern piano emerged

  • Giovanni Battista Sammartini (1700-1775)

  • first patented version of a piano

  • Pietro Metastasio (1698-1782)

  • Ignaz Holzbauer (1711 – 1783)

  • American revolution (1775-1783)

  • Frederick the Great (1712 – 1786)

  • Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714 – 1787)

  • Leopold Mozart (1719-1787)

  • Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714 – 1788)

  • Franz Xaver Richter (1709-1789)

  • Industrial revolution (1760-1790)

  • Turkish style= Janissary style (1780-1790)

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)

  • The french revolution (1789-1799)

  • William Billings (1746-1800)

  • Sonata

  • Sonata

  • Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)

  • Clarinet improvements lead to more modern clarinet

  • Giovanni Paisiello (1740-1816)

  • Maria Theresa von Paradis (1759-1824)

  • Antonio Salieri (1750-1825)

  • Maria Anna Mozart (1751-1829)

  • Lorenzo da Ponte (1749-1838)

  • Richard Wagner (1813-1883)

  • Charles Gounad (1818-1893)