... in ruins. The German people were unemployed and becoming bankrupt. The farmers were hurting and feared they would fall into the lower class. They blamed the economic downturn on unemployed people being unwilling to work. By this time, the German government had fallen apart and new elections were held. Adolf Hitler and his National Socialist Party won the election, becoming the second ... elected a different leader that would have done the same thing. Hitler was as an example. We can never let a person like this come under power again. People have learned important things from Hitler's r...

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... writing for the brass became rather less exciting. Trumpets and horns though were completely accepted as a vital part of the orchestral sound in the later works of the Classical era. Apart from the timpani, percussion instruments were used as novelties. They were too closely associated with military bands as being too strong for the opera audience. There were instruments such as ... string quartet was also a new invention in the Classical period. Once the string family had been brought up to standard, it was a short step to the quartet. All kinds of things happened to the orchestra in t...

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