... which he developed a distinctive individual style sometimes referred to as his "heroic "period," and a late period in which his work became even more individuated and often referred to as unorthodox, sometimes characterized as "transcendent " and "sublime. His work seemed to "combine the baroque ideas of Handel and Bach with his icons Mozart and Haydn. (Lane). The impact of increasing deafness on Beethoven ... 's music is striking. "If you combine the timeline of his hearing loss with the timeline of his compositions, it's really striking to me. I don't see how you can ignore that there'...

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... composers, however, such as Franz Joseph Haydn and Franz Peter Schubert also contributed to the classical era. Musicians of the classical era were influenced by those of the baroque era. The classical period in music tends to be associated with the movement called the Age of Reason or the Enlightenment, which began earlier in the eighteenth century. Following the scientific and ... into being, and commercial practices increasingly determined a composer's reputation and by the end of the century, the public's view of the composer had changed substantially. It was during the classical perio...

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