Giovanni Paisiello was an Italian composer of the Classical era, and was the most popular opera composer of the late 1700s. His operatic style influenced Mozart and Rossini.
Paisiello at the clavichord, by Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, 1791. The score is Nina, o sia La pazza per amore.
Portrait of Giovanni Paisiello, composer (1741-1816)
The Classical Period was an era of classical music between roughly 1750 and 1820.
A young 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 a portrait by Joseph Duplessis, dated 1775 (Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna)
Haydn portrait by Thomas Hardy, 1792