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Francis Couperin (1668-1733)
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Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)
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Jean Phillippe Rameau (1683-1764)
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Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757)
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Pietro Metastasio (1698-1782)
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Giovanni Batista Sammartini (1700-1750)
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Franz Xaver Richter (1709-1789)
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Bartolomeo Cristofori invents the piano
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Domenico Alberti (1710-1740)
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Ignaz Holzbauer (1711-1783)
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Englishmen John Shore invents the tuning fork
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Frederick the Great (1712-1786)
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Nicolò Jommelli (1714-1774)
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Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714-1787)
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Carl Phillip Emanuel Bach (1714-1788)
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Leopold Mozart (1719-1787)
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Charles Burney (1726-1814)
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Pasquale Anfossi (1727-1797)
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Nicolò Piccini (1728-1800)
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Genres
rococo, empfindsamkeit, symphony, sonata, concerto, chamber music, string quartet, sacred music, minuet, allegro, rondo, opera, opera seria, opera buffa, opera comique, operetta, ballad opera, grand opera, aria, oratorio -
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The First Great Awakening
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Christian Cannabich (1731-1798)
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Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
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Johann Schobert (ca. 1735-1767)
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J.C. Bach (1735-1782)
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Giovanni Paisiello (1740-1816)
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Frederick the Great becomes king of Prussia
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Famine in Ireland
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William Billings (1746-1800)
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Domenico Cimarosa (1749-1801)
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Antonio Salieri (1750-1825)
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Maria Anna Mozart (Nannerl) (1751-1829)
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Muzio Clementi (1752-1832)
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Vicente Martín y Soler (1754-1806)
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The French and Indian War
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Samuel Johnson publishes the first English language dictionary
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
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Maria Theresa von Paradis (1759-1824)
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Luigi Cherubini (1760-1842)
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Treaty of Paris ends the Seven Year's War
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Joseph Priestley invents carbonated water, or soda water
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Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
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The Boston Tea Party
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Alexander Cummings invents the flush toilet
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American Revolutionary War
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The U.S. Declaration of Independence is adopted
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ILLUMINATI founded by Adam Weishaupt
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Benjamin Franklin invents bifocal eyeglasses
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Los Angeles, CA is founded
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George Washington is the 1st president of the U.S.
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Eli Whitney invents the Cotton Gin
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Former King Louis XVI of France and his wife Marie Antoinette are guillotined!
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Edward Jenner develops the vaccination for smallpox
