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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart[a][b] (27 January 1756 – 5 December 1791) was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical period. Despite his short life, his rapid pace of composition resulted in more than 800 works representing virtually every Western classical genre of his time. Many of these compositions are acknowledged as pinnacles of ...
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George Frideric Handel was a leading figure of early 18th-century British music. Music in the British Isles, from the earliest recorded times until the Baroque and the rise of recognisably modern classical music, was a diverse and rich culture, including sacred and secular music and ranging from the popular to the elite. [1] Each of the major nations of England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales ...
Arcangelo Corelli (/ kəˈrɛli /, [1][2] also UK: / kɒˈ -/, [3] US: / kɔːˈ -, koʊˈ -/, [3][4] Italian: [arˈkandʒelo koˈrɛlli]; 17 February 1653 – 8 January 1713) [5] was an Italian composer and violinist of the Baroque era. His music was key in the development of the modern genres of sonata and concerto, in establishing the preeminence of the violin, and as the first coalescing ...
Classical period (music) A young Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, a representative composer of the Classical period, seated at a keyboard. The Classical Period was an era of classical music between roughly 1750 and 1820. [1] The classical period falls between the Baroque and Romantic periods. [2] Classical music has a lighter, clearer texture than ...
Scarlatti's music forms an important link between the early Baroque Italian vocal styles of the 17th century, with their centers in Florence, Venice and Rome, and the classical school of the 18th century. Scarlatti's style, however, is more than a transitional element in Western music; like most of his Naples colleagues he shows an almost modern understanding of the psychology of modulation ...
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