... expression and instrumental colour. There was a substantial change in the music that was being produced. During the Classical Era many younger musicians were developing and they found the old Baroque style of music to be too rigid and set in its own ways, they wanted something more spontaneous and dramatic, they no longer wanted to take one single emotion and express ... and an accompaniment that was clearly distinct. As well, new genres were discovered that completed the transformation from the Baroque era to the Classical in which one of the most important and developed was the sonata....

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... Salzburg, Vienna, and Prague was in the hands of the aristocracy and their wealth would commission artists and musicians to amuse, inspire, and entertain. The music of the Renaissance and Baroque periods was transitioning toward more full-bodied compositions with complex instrumentation. The small city-state of Salzburg would be the birthplace of one of the most talented and prodigious musical ... 1782 turned to 1783, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart became enthralled with the work of Johannes Sebastian Bach and George Frederic Handel and this, in turn, resulted in several compositions in the Ba...

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... , trumpets, violins and pianos were played everywhere from concert halls to restaurants. Today the term "classical music" has come to define the style of Western music that began in Europe in the Middle Ages. It includes symphonies, chamber music and opera. Classical music is composed of ... 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 ... of the R...

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