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Pietro Metastasio
A court poet in Vienna who is the author of the most important librettos for the 18th century -
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Giovanni Battista Sammartini
Italian composer and innovator of the symphony in Milan -
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Farinelli
One of the most famous castrati in the 18th century -
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Franz Xaver Richter
German composer, teacher, and singer and the innovator of the string quartet -
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Prince Eszterhazy
Haydn's patron and employer until 1790 -
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Carl Phillip Emanuel Bach
Eldest son of J.S. Bach who wrote in both baroque and classical styles -
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Christoph Willibald Gluck
German opera-reform composer who is often considered Baroque who created a new balance between music and drama -
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Johann Stamitz
Symphonic innovator in Mannheim, a violinist, and teacher who helped establish symhponic genre -
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Dr. Charles Burney
Music historian, author, and organist who traveled Europe and wrote about his observations -
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The Classical Era
This style emerged in Italian operas in the 1720s and 30s with the use of musical gestures and slower harmonic motions -
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Franz Joseph Haydn
Primary Austrian composer, teacher, keyboardist, and violinist who served as innovator and mover within the new classic style -
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Johann Christian Bach
Son of J.S. Bach who worked in Milan and London. Friend and influence to Mozart -
Handel's Messiah
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Luigi Boccherini
Italian composer and cellist -
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William Billings
Most prominent composer in New America, singing teacher but not a strong composer -
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Domenica Cimarosa
Italian composer and a central figure in opera in the late 18th century -
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Lorenzo Da Ponte
Italian librettist and poet who collaborate with Mozart -
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German poet and writer who was a literary force behind Romanticism -
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Antonio Salieri
Italian composer and teacher who functioned in the transitional periods between the galant and classic and then again between classic and the romantic -
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Muzio Clementi
keyboardist, teacher, music publisher, piano manufacturer, and English composer of Italian birth -
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Austrian composer and child prodigy who wrote in all genres. His best innovations were in opera, one of the best musicians and composers of all time