Timeline 3: Classical Era

By madisonlaird0

  • start of the Classical era

  • Christian Cannabich is born

  • Haydn is born

  • Francois Couperin dies

  • Giovanni Paisiello

  • Antonio Vivaldi dies

  • William Billings is born

  • Lorenzo da Ponte was born

  • Domenico Cimarosa is born

  • Antonio Salieri is born

  • J.S. Bach dies

  • Vincente Martin y Soler is born

  • Domenico Scarlatti dies

  • G.F. Handel dies

  • "Opera Buffa" was created

  • Aloysia Weber is born

  • Jean-Philippe Rameau dies

  • Franz Xaver Sussmayr was born

  • Georg Philip Telemann dies

  • Georg Philip Telemann dies

  • Billings publishes his first piece

    "The New-England Psalm-Singer"

  • Charles Burney writes "The Present State of Music in France and Italy"

  • Burney writes "The Present State of Music in Germany, the Netherlands, and the United Provinces"

  • Niccolo Jommeli dies

  • Niccolo Jommeli dies

  • Period: to

    The American Revolution

  • Iganz Holzbauer

  • Mozart publishes "Le nozze di Figaro"

  • Frederick the Great dies

  • Mozart publishes "Don Giovanni"

  • Christoph Willibald Gluck dies

  • Period: to

    The French Revolution

  • Mozart publishes "Cosi Fan Tutte"

  • Mozart dies

  • Mozart released "The Magic Flute"

  • G. Rossini is born

  • Pasquale Anfossi dies

  • Haydn publishes "The Creation"

  • Pietro Metastasio is born

  • Christian Cannabich

  • William Billings dies

  • Haydn publishes "The Seasons"

  • Domenico Cimarosa dies

  • Franz Xaver Sussmayr dies

  • Vincente Martin y Soler dies

  • Haydn dies

  • end of Classical era