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Bartolomeo Cristofori
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Francois Couperin
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Jean-Philippe Rameau
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Giuseppe Tartini
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Pietro Metastasio
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invention of the “first” pianoforte by Bartolomeo Cristofori
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Libretto/Libretti
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Giovanni Battista Sammartini
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Comic Operas
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Franz Xaver Richter
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Ignaz Holzbauer
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Frederick the Great
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Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
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Christoph Willibald Gluck
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Niccolò Jommelli
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Leopold Mozart
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Treatise on Harmony
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Charles Burney
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Niccolò Piccinni
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The Rococo Style
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The Classical Era
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Christian Cannabich
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Franz Joseph Haydn
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Johann Schobert
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Invention of Symphony
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The 4th movement (minuet) was added
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Giovanni Paisiello
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William Billings
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Lorenzo da Ponte
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Empfindsamkeit
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Music target toward middle and upper class
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String Quartets chamber genre introduced
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Antonio Salieri
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Antonio Salieri
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Maria Anna Mozart
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C.P.E. Bach’s keyboard treatise
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Vicente Martín y Soler
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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Maria Theresa von Paradis
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Opera Buffa
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Industrial Revolution
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Harpsichords diminished in popularity once the more modern piano emerged
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The American Revolution
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first patented version of a 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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Richard Wagner
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Charles Gounod