timeline 3 classical

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    Bartolomeo Cristofori

    Most pianists today accredit him with the invention of the "first" Pianoforte
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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

    A great violinist
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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.
    He spoke German, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, English, Latin, ancient and modern Greek and Hebrew oh my.
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    Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

    Worked in berlin for Frederick the great
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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

    Founder of opera buffa
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    The classical era

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    The Rococo Style

    Derives from the French word "rocaille" meaning "scroll"
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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
    He wrote 94 operas
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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
    At the age of 12 she was said to be one of the most skillful players by her father.
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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