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Francois Couperin
French composer who wrote in the Rococo style that was a new charming and entertaining style -
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Jean-Philippe Rameau
French composer and theorist; tried to establish a rational foundation for harmonic practice -
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Pietro Metastasio
court poet in Vienna; incredibly famous librettist during this time -
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Giovanni Battista Sammartini
invented the symphony in Milan, Italy during the 1740s -
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Frederick the Great
reigned over the Kingdom of Prussia from 1740-1786; was a gifted flute player and composed at least 100 sonatas and 4 symphonies -
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Carl Philippe Emanuel (C.P.E.) Bach
worked in Berlin as the chamber harpsichordist for Frederick the Great who reigned over the Kingdom of Prussia from 1740-1786; son of J.S. Bach -
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Christoph Wiillibald Gluck
lyric dramatic opera- brought about operatic reform in Italian opera seria -
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Charles Burney
organist, amateur composer, writer, and music scholar; wrote books about different composers of the time and considered a primary source -
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Pasquale Anfossi
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Niccolo Piccini
founder of the opera buffa -
Empfindsamkeit
a simple and expressive style that originated in Italy, but shifted to Germany during the 1750s with C.P.E. Bach; supposed to be a natural style that was very sentimental -
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Rococo Style
derives from the French word "rocaille" meaning "scroll"; considered over-the-top in ornamentation and decoration -
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Franz Joseph Haydn
credited as the primary mover within the new classic style concerning instrumental music but he did not invent the style -
Minuet
also known as the fourth movement, was added in the 1740s in Mannheim, Germany -
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William Billings
one of the first American composers; first publication was "The New-England Psalm-Singer" -
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Lorenzo da Ponte
a famous librettist that worked with Mozart -
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Antonio Salieri
one of the successful court composers in Vienna; very popular and talented; composed many operas in Italian, German, and French -
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The Industrial Revolution
made mass production possible; many instruments had many improvements done to them -
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Sonata Form
most widely used form during this time for symphonic and chamber pieces -
Le nozze di Figaro
Mozart's first opera buffa; dramma giocoso in four acts; based on a play that had been banned in France -
Don Giovanni
One of Mozart's most famous Opera Buffa