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invented the first pianoforte in Florence in 1700.
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French composer who wrote in Rococo style
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Tried to establish a rational foundation for harmonic practice.
French composer and theorist.
“Treatise on Harmony” -
Court poet in Vienna.
Most important author of librettos in the 18th century -
Italian composer and innovator of the symphony in Milan
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One of the most famous castrati of the 18th century. Trained by Porpora
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Inventor of the string quartet
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Important composer that Mozart met
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Military victories
Reorganization of Prussian armies
Patronage of Prussian Arts
A gifted musician: played flute.
Composed at least 100 sonatas and 4 symphonies
Spoke German, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, English, Latin, ancient and modern Greek, and Hebrew -
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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lyric dramatic opera - brought about operatic reform in Italian opera seria
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Famous Italian composer
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Haydn's patron and employer until 1790
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symphonic innovator in Mannheim, helped establish the symphonic genre
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Violinist, composer who toured Europe.
Father of W, A, and Maria Anna Mozart -
The beginning of the ideas of modern music theory by Rameau
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Organist, amature composer, writer, and music scholar
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famous opera composer from Naples
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The founder of opera buffa
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Style using lots of ornamentation.
Scrolls were often featured -
Famous composer that Mozart met
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Credited as the primary mover in instrumental music in the new classical style and a primary Austrian composer
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One of the most original and inventive composers.
Career began working for the Esterházy family who supported him after he became homeless. -
One of the people who influenced W. A. Mozart musically.
Simulated orchestra effects in harpsichord music. -
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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Was a very good Italian composer and wrote 94 operas
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wrote 91 operas and was an important teacher
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prolific Italian composer and cellist
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One of our first American composers
A tanner
Taught himself to write music
His first publication was “The New-England Psalm-Singer” -
Librettist who worked with Mozart
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famous Italian opera composer
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German literary force behind romanticism
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One of the successful court composers in Vienna; very popular and talented
Wrote many operas in Italian, German, and French -
famous opera composer. Gluck's student
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W. A. Mozart's sister. Also a child prodigy
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English composer of Italian birth, manufactured keyboards
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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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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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A child prodigy from a musician family.
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Made mass productions possible
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The person Mozart tasked with finishing his requiem if he could not himself before he died
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William Billings' first publication
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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 -
Charles Burney
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Charles Burney
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Profoundly change political systems and social order.
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Four volume written by Charles Burney
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First patent of the pianoforte in London.
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One of Mazart's very famous opera buffa, and his first mature opera
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One of Mozart's very famous opera buffa. Considered the greatest opera ever written
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One of Haydn's two important oratorios composed late in his life.
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Profoundly changed political systems and social order
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One of Mozart's very famous opera buffa
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a Mozart piece in which he composed an aria and leading role for his wife Aloysia Weber
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supplied anthems for American churches
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One of Haydn's two important oratorios composed late in his life.
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