... 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 composers of all time. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's was the sole-surviving son of Leopold and Maria Pertl Mozart. Leopold was a successful composer, violinist, and ... connection with his audiences who were, in the words of Mozart biographer Maynard Solomon, "given th...

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... and women in a magical world endlessly seeking out the greatest pleasures in life. Other artistic responses to the Classical consisted of satirizations of the old traditional morals and manners of the upper class British and paintings that opposed the oppression and inhumanity of the old ways. The Classical period was a major turning pointing history and marked the beginning of many social and cultural revolutions. Unlike Renaissance music that took almost 150 years to change into ... Baroque music, Baroque music underwent a transition that quickly converted it to Classical music in a r...

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