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Pietro Metastasio
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Johann Adolf Hasse
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Giovanni Battista Sammartini
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Farinelli (Carlo Broachi)
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Baldassare Galuppi
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Carlo Goldoni
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Franz Xaver Richter
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Franz Benda
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Caffarelli (Gaetano Majorani)
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Wilhelm Friedemann Bach
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Domenico Alberti
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Prince Nikolaus J. Eszterhazy
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Niccolo Jommelli
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Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
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Christoph Willibald Gluck
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Johann Stamitz
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Leopold Mozart
Mozart's Father -
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Georg Anton Benda
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Dr. Charles Burney
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Florian Leopold Gassmann
Founder of the oldest musical society in Vienna -
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Franz Joseph Haydn
Austrian composer and leader of the classical style, First Viennese School -
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Johann Christian Bach
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Michael Haydn
Brother of Franz -
Beginning of the Classical Period
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Luigi Boccherini
Prolific Italian composer -
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William Billings
Most prominant composer in the new america -
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Domenico Cimarosa
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Lorenzo Da Ponte
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Literary force behind romanticism -
1750's- The string quartet is invented
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Antonio Salieri
transitional periods b/t the galant and the classic and then again between the classic and the romantic -
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Muzio Clementi
piano manufacturer -
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Austrain child prodigy whose best innovations were in Opera. One of the best musicians and composers of all time -
1762- Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice premiers
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Franz Xaver Sussmayr
Student of Mozart, helped in the completions of Mozart's Requiem -
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Ludwig van Beethoven
Instrumental in the transistion between classicism and romanticism -
1786- The Marriage of Figaro by Mozart premiers
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1791- The Magic Flute by Mozart premiers
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End of the Classical Period