Classical period (music)
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The Classical period was an era of classical music between roughly 1750 and 1820.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, a representative composer of the Classical period, seated at a keyboard
A modern string quartet. In the 2000s, string quartets from the Classical era are the core of the chamber music literature. From left to right: violin 1, violin 2, cello, viola.
Gluck, detail of Portrait of Christoph Willibald Gluck by Joseph Duplessis, dated 1775 (Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna)
Haydn portrait by Thomas Hardy, 1792
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was a Classical composer and musician. He completed more than 800 works in his life—including outstanding examples of most of the genres of his time: symphonies, concertos, cha
Classical period (music)
…Wagenseil, Georg Matthias Monn, Joseph Haydn, Johann Georg Albrechtsberger, Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf, Johann Baptist Wanhal, Antonio Salieri, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven, and Franz Schubert all worked in Vienna. In the middle of the 18th century, Europe began to move toward a new style in architecture…
Detail from Portrait of the Mozart Family, c. 1781
Mozart's birthplace at Getreidegasse 9, Salzburg
Mozart family on tour: Leopold, Wolfgang, Nannerl; watercolour by Carmontelle, c. 1763
Mozart aged 14 in January 1770 (School of Verona, attributed to Giambettino Cignaroli)