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Opera invented
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Bartolomeo Cristofori
invented the first pianoforte in Florence in 1700. -
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Couperin
French composer who wrote in Rococo style -
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Rameau
Tried to establish a rational foundation for harmonic practice.
French composer and theorist.
“Treatise on Harmony” -
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Metastasio
Court poet in Vienna.
Most important author of librettos in the 18th century -
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Sammartini
Italian composer and innovator of the symphony in Milan -
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Farinelli
One of the most famous castrati of the 18th century. Trained by Porpora -
comic operas appear in Italy
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Franz Xaver Richter
Inventor of the string quartet -
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Holzbauer
Important composer that Mozart met -
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Frederick the Great
Military victories
Reorganization of Prussian armies
Patronage of Prussian Arts
A gifted musician: played flute.
Composed at least 100 sonatas and 4 symphonies
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Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
Oldest Child of J. S. Bach. Primary composer of the style Empfindsamkeit, which was desired to be simple and expressive of natural feeling, reaction against the strict and learned style of counterpoint. Keyboard Treatise. Worked for Frederick the Great (Frederick II) -
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Gluck
lyric dramatic opera - brought about operatic reform in Italian opera seria -
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Jommelli
Famous Italian composer -
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Eszterhazy
Haydn's patron and employer until 1790 -
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Stamitz
symphonic innovator in Mannheim, helped establish the symphonic genre -
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Leopold Mozart
Violinist, composer who toured Europe.
Father of W, A, and Maria Anna Mozart -
Treatise on Harmony
The beginning of the ideas of modern music theory by Rameau -
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Charles Burney
Organist, amature composer, writer, and music scholar -
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Anfossi
famous opera composer from Naples -
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Piccinni
The founder of opera buffa -
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Rococo style
Style using lots of ornamentation.
Scrolls were often featured -
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Cannabich
Famous composer that Mozart met -
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Haydn
Credited as the primary mover in instrumental music in the new classical style and a primary Austrian composer -
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Haydn
One of the most original and inventive composers.
Career began working for the Esterházy family who supported him after he became homeless. -
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Johann Schobert
One of the people who influenced W. A. Mozart musically.
Simulated orchestra effects in harpsichord music. -
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J. C. Bach
Bach’s style used beautiful melodies and bits of chromaticism; he wrote Italian operas, church music, and orchestral works.
Bach used contrasting themes in concertos and sonata-form movements.
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Giovanni Paisiello
Was a very good Italian composer and wrote 94 operas -
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Paisiello
wrote 91 operas and was an important teacher -
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Boccherini
prolific Italian composer and cellist -
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Billings
One of our first American composers
A tanner
Taught himself to write music
His first publication was “The New-England Psalm-Singer” -
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Lorenzo da Ponte
Librettist who worked with Mozart -
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Cimarosa
famous Italian opera composer -
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Wolfgang von Goethe
German literary force behind romanticism -
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Antonio Salieri
One of the successful court composers in Vienna; very popular and talented
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Salieri
famous opera composer. Gluck's student -
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Maria Anna Mozart
W. A. Mozart's sister. Also a child prodigy -
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Clementi
English composer of Italian birth, manufactured keyboards -
C.P.E. Bach’s keyboard treatise
Essay on the True Art of Playing Keyboard stated that music’s main aims were to touch the heart and move the affections -
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Vicente Martín y Soler
Spanish composer whose Italian opera, L’arbore di Diana (“Diana’s Tree”) was the most frequently performed opera in the Viennese court during Mozart’s lifetime -
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
A child prodigy from a musician family. -
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Industrial Revolution
Made mass productions possible -
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Süssmayr
The person Mozart tasked with finishing his requiem if he could not himself before he died -
“The New-England Psalm-Singer"
William Billings' first publication -
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Sonata form
Most widely used form during this time span. Mozart was known to use it.
First movements of Classical Era symphonies were almost always in sonata form -
The Present State of Music in France and Italy
Charles Burney -
The Present State of Music in Germany, the Netherlands, and the United Provinces
Charles Burney -
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The American Revolution
Profoundly change political systems and social order. -
A General History of Music
Four volume written by Charles Burney -
Patent pianoforte
First patent of the pianoforte in London. -
Le nozze di Figaro
One of Mazart's very famous opera buffa, and his first mature opera -
Don Giovanni
One of Mozart's very famous opera buffa. Considered the greatest opera ever written -
Die Schöpfung "The Creation"
One of Haydn's two important oratorios composed late in his life. -
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The French Revolution
Profoundly changed political systems and social order -
Cosi Fan Tutte
One of Mozart's very famous opera buffa -
Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute)
a Mozart piece in which he composed an aria and leading role for his wife Aloysia Weber -
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Mason
supplied anthems for American churches -
Die Jahreszeiten "The Seasons"
One of Haydn's two important oratorios composed late in his life.