The Classical Era

By kag103
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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

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