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Opera invented
serious with a few comic elements -
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Bartolomeo Cristofori
invented the "first" pianoforte in Florence -
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Francois Couperin
French composer on the rococo style -
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Jean-Philippe Rameau
French composer
theorist
tried to establish a rational foundation for harmonic practice -
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Pietro Metastasio
Court poet in Vienna
famous librettist -
"First" fortepiano invented
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Giovanni Battista Sammartini
invented the symphony in Milan, Italy
originally it contained three movements, the 4th was added in the 1740s
standard classical symphony has 4 movements -
Comic operas started to appear in Italy
1700s
early comic operas mostly slapstick (1700-40s)
late comic operas used more realistic and serious topics (1750-60s) -
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Franz Xaver Richter
inventor of the string quartet -
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Ignaz Holzbauer
important composer -
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Frederick the Great
military victories
composed at least 100 sonatas and 4 symphonies -
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Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
composed in the Empfindsamkeit style (simple and expressive, natural feeling)
Bach's oldest son -
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Christoph Willibald Gluck
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Niccolò Jommelli
Italian Opera composer -
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The Industrial Revolution
made mass production possible -
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Leopold Mozart
Mozart's father -
"Treatise on Harmony"
the beginning of ideas of modern music theory
Jean-Philippe -
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Charles Burney
Organist, amateur composer, writer, and music scholar -
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Pasquale Anfossi
Famous Opera composer -
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Niccolò Piccinni
Founder of Opera Buffa -
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The Rococo Style
- derives from the french word "rocaille"
- Ornate style
- over the top
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Christian Cannabich
important composer -
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Franz Joseph Haydn
one of the most original and inventive composers
over 750 works
was not allowed to sell his works at first, it all belonged to the court
composed many string quartets
"Salomon" or "London Symphonies" -
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Johann Schobert
simulated orchestra effects with harpsichord writing -
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J.C. Bach
used beautiful melodies and bits of chromatism
wrote Italian operas, church music, and orchestral works -
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Frederick the Great reign over the kingdom of Prussia
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Giovanni Paisiello
very good Italian composer
wrote 94 operas -
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William Billings
one of the first american composers -
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Lorenzo da Ponte
famous librettist with whom Mozart worked -
String quartet was introduced
one of the most important chamber genres
four movements, following the general outline of a symphony
two violins, a viola, and a cello
all voices considered equal
no conductor -
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Antonio Salieri
one of the successful court composers in Vienna
composed many operas in Italian, German, and French -
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The Classical Period
dates are closer to 1730s-1810s (some even say 1825)
order
objectivity
symmetry
diatonic
singable melodies
regular rhythms and meters
Haydn
Mozart
Beethoven The FIrst Viennese School -
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Nannerl (Maria Anna Mozart)
Mozart's older sister
often described with equal talent and skill
toured with Mozart during her childhood -
C.P.E. Bach's keyboard treatise
stated that music's main aims were to touch the heart and move the affections -
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Child prodigy
Keyboard virtuoso
first job at the age of 16, for Archbishop
lived to the age of 35
made significant contributions to nearly all musical genres
music noted for lyrical melodic lines, colorful orchestration, dramatic content
adored plays
exceptional talent for imitation
we have about 1000 of his compositions
performed as a virtuoso pianist
taught piano lessons and composed on it for his students
Mozart only published 6 of his 27 concertos during his lifetime -
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Maria Theresa Von Paradis
Excellent pianist and organist
remarkable musical memory
BLIND!!!!!!!!!!!
composed two concertos, a piano trio, songs, cantatas, operas, and other chamber music
Mozart composed his piano concerto in B-flat, K.456 (1784) for her
Salieri composed his only organ concert, in C, in her honor (1773) -
Opera Buffa
Mozart wrote three famous: Le Nozze di Figaro (1786)
Cosi Fan Tutte (1790)
Don Giovanni (1787) -
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Sturm und Drang
literature more dramatic and realistic
around the 1760s-1770s
foreshadowing of Romanticism -
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Aloysia Weber
Mozart composed arias and leading roles for her, including the Queen of the Night from the magic flute -
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Mozart went on tours with his father
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Symphony No. 29 in A Major, K.201
memorable melody
by Mozart -
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The American Revolution
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First patented version of a piano
in London -
Haydn finally began to sell his works to patrons and publishers abroad
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Mozart was commissioned to compose and produce an opera, Idomeneo, for Munich
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Mozart bought his first piano in Vienna
it is in his old apartment in Salzburg -
Piano concerto in G Major K.453
by Mozart
for his student
three movements
clear indication of sonata principles within the ritornello -
Le Nozze di Figaro
by Mozart -
Le nozze di Figaro
Mozart's first mature opera Buffa
four acts
based on a play banned in France -
Don Giovanni
by Mozart
considered the best opera ever composed by Wagner, Rossini and Gounod -
Mozart was appointed Imperial-Royal Court composer
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The French Revolution
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Cosi Fan Tuttte
by Mozart -
The Magic Flute
by Mozart -
Symphony No. 100 in G Major (Military, 1794)
One of the Salomon Symphonies
used trumpet fanfares and Turkish percussion instruments
by Haydn -
Trumpet Concerto in E-flat Major
the trumpet still had no valves, but Haydn's colleague, court trumpeter Anton Weidinger, developed an experimental trumpet with keys.
3. mov.
sonata rondo form -
The Creation
Important Oratorio by Haydn
Haydn's final public moment was on its performance in 1808, in Vienna -
The Seasons
by Haydn
important Oratorio -
valved trumpet invented
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Haydn's final public moment
on a performance of the oratorio "The Creation"
he was frail
greeted with honor