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Bartolomeo Cristofori
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Francois Couperia
-French composer, wrote in this new charming and entertaining style -
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Jean-Phillippe Rameau
-French Composer and Theorist
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Giuseppe Tratini
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Pietro Metastosio
-Incredibly famous as a librettist; set the standard for Operas style crca. 1750 -
Invention of the 1st Pianoforte
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Giovanni Battista Sammartini
-Invention of the Symphony in Milan, Italy -
Comic Operas
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Franz Xaver Richter
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Ignaz Holzbauern
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Federick the Great
-Gifted Musician; played the flute
-Had a terrible childhood
-Composed at least 100 Sonatas and 4 Symphonies -
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Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
-Son to J.S. Bach
-Worked in berlin for Federick the Great; who reigned over the Kigdom of Prussia from 1740-1786 -
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Christoph Willibald Gluck
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Niccolo Jommelli
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Johann Georg Leopold Mozart
- German Composer -Father and teacher of Maria Ann Mozart and Wolfgang Amedeus Mozart -
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Treatise on Harmony
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Charles Burney
-Organist, ametyre composeer, writer
-Wrote "The Present State of music in Fance and Italy -
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Niccolo Piccinni
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The Classical Period
-It developed in the 1730's in Italy, beginning in Opera
-Musical traits; Singable melodies, symmetrical phrasing, slower harmonic rhythms -
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Rococo Style
-"Rococo" derives from the French word,"ricaille" meaning "scroll"
-Ornate Style; scrolls were often featured -
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Christian Cannabich
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Franz Joseph Hydn
-Credited as the primary mover within the new classical style music but he did not invent the style -
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Johann Schobert
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Invention of the Symphony
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Giovanni Paisiello
-A very good Italian Composer
-Wrote 94 operas
-Spent time in Naples, St. Peterburg, and Paris, ending his career in Naples -
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William Billings
-A famous librettist with whom Mozart worked with
-Wrote the Libretti for the three comic operas -
String Quartets Chamber game introduced
-The inventor of the string Quartet genre was Franz Xaver Richter.
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Antonio Salieri
-One of the succesful court composers in Vienna;very popular and talented
-Composed many operas om Italian,German, and French -
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Vincent Martin y Soler
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Maria Theresa von Paradis
-Excellent pianist and organist
- Reowned for her vurnable musical memory
-She was blind
-Most of her music is lost -
Operas Buffa
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Industrial Revolution
- Made mass production possible
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American Revolution
-Changed political system and social order -
First Patented Version of a Piano
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Turkish Style = Janissary Style
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Maria Anna Mozart
-Child prodigy; related to Wolfgand Amedeus Mozart
-Daughter of Leopold Mozart
-Toured with Mozart during her childhood
-The older sister to Mozart -
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Wolfgang Amedeus Mozart
-Clssical composer
-Child Prodigy; like his sister Maria Ann
-Went on tours with his father; Austrian-Hugarian countries, Germany, France, Italy, England, and Holland
-His style of music; Lyrical melodic lines, Colorful orchestration, and dramatic content
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The French Revolution
-Changed political system and social order -
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Richard Wagner
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Charles Gounod