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Bartolomeo Cristofori
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Francis Couperin
A French composer, wrote in a new charming and entertaining style- ROCOCO style -
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Jean-Philippe Rameau
Freanch composer and theorist, tried to establish a rational foundation for harmonic practice "Treatise on Harmony" the beggini9ngs of the ideas of modern theory. -
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Giuseppe Tartini
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Pietro Metasatsio
Court Poet in Vienna, a primary librettist for opera seria in the late baroque and classical periods -
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"First" pianoforte by Bartolomeo Cristofori
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Libretto/Libretti
Text of an opera -
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Giovanni Battista Sammartini
Invented the symphony in Milan Italy -
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Comic operas
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Franz Xaver Richter
Invented the string quartet genre -
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Ignaz Holzbauer
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Frederick the Great
A gifted musician who played flute, composed at least 100 sonata and 4 symphonies
had many military victories and reorganized the Prussian armies.
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Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
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Christoph Willibald Gluck
lyric dramatic opera- brought about operatic reform in Italian opera seria -
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Niccolo Jommelli
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Leopold Mozart
Musician, Teacher, Violinist, Author, Father -
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Treatise on Harmony
Begging of ideas of modern music theory -
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Charles Burney
Organist, amateur composer, writer and music scholar -
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Niccolo Piccinni
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The classical era
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The Rococo Style
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Christian Cannabich
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Franz Joseph Haydn
Composed two important Oratorios:
Die Schopfung (the creation)
Die Jahreszeiten (the seasons)
His first and last compositions were both Masses -
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Johann Schobert
Simulated Orchestra effects in Harpsichord writing -
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The fourth movement was added
The addition of the fourth movement being the minuet -
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Invention of Symphony
by Giovanni Battista Sammartini -
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Giovanni Paisiello
a very good Italian composer
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William Billings
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Vincente Martin y Soler
Spanish composer whose Italian opera, L'arbore di Diana was the most frequently preformed opera in the Viennese court during mozarts lifetime -
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Lorenzo da Ponte
wrote the libretti for the three comic operas listed above -
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string quartets chamber ensembles introduced
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Empfindsamkeit
The style of Empfindsamkeit desired to be, above all, simple and expressive of "natural" feeling -
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Maria Anna Mozart
Mozart's older sister, with equal talent and skill
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
A child prodigy, as well as his sister. the two went on tours around Europe by their father Leopold Mozart. -
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Industrial revolution
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Opera Buffa
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The American Revolution
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First patented version of the piano
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Turkish style = Janissary style
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The French revolution
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Sonata
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Improvements to clarinet lead to more modern clarinet
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Richard Wagner