Timeline Three: The Classical Era (1730s-1810s)

By AubreyPedersen
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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

  • invention of the “first” pianoforte by Bartolomeo Cristofori

  • Libretto/Libretti

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    Giovanni Battista Sammartini

  • 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

  • Treatise on Harmony

    beginning of ideas of modern music theory
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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

  • Invention of Symphony

    by Giovanni Battista Sammartini

  • 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

  • Empfindsamkeit

  • Music target toward middle and upper class

  • String Quartets chamber genre introduced

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    Antonio Salieri

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    Antonio Salieri

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    Maria Anna Mozart

  • 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

  • Opera Buffa

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    Industrial Revolution

  • Harpsichords diminished in popularity once the more modern piano emerged

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    The American Revolution

  • first patented version of a piano

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    Turkish style = Janissary style

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    The French Revolution

  • Sonata

    called “first movement form

  • Clarinet improvements lead to more modern clarinet

    Iwan Muller created new keypads covered with leather and fish bladder skin. The previous felt pads leaked air and through this improvement the Clarinet makers realized it was possible to add more holes and keys onto the instrument.
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    Richard Wagner

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    Charles Gounod