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Court poet in Vienna; most important author of librettos for the 18th century. His libretti were set over 800 times in the 18th/19th centuries.
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Galant Italian composer and innovator of the symphony in Milan.
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One of the most famous castrati in the 18th century.
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German composer, teacher, and singer. Innovator of the string quartet, one of the foremost Mannheim composers.
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Haydn's patron and employer until 1790.
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Eldest son of J.S. Bach, wrote in both Baroque and classical styles. Associated with Empfindsamkeit ("sentimental" style), worked in Berlin for 30 years under Frederick the Great.
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German opera-reform composer, often considered Baroque. Created a new balance between music and drama. Jealous of Mozart.
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Symphonic innovator in Mannheim; conductor, violinist, and teacher. Helped establish the symphonic Genre.
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Composer, violinist, teacher, theorist. Father of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
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Music historian, author, teacher, and organist who traveled Europe and wrote about his observations.
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Primary Austrian composer who served as an innovator and mover within the new classical style; teacher, keyboardist, and violinist.
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Worked in Milan and London, son of J.S. Bach. Friend and influence to Mozart.
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Italian composer and cellist; prolific.
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Most prominent composer in the New America, singing teacher, not a strong composer.
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Italian composer, a central figure in opera in the late 18th century; extraordinarily successful in his day.
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Italia librettist and poet, collaborated with Mozart, moved to the US and was professor at Columbia College in New York. Controversial character.
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German poet and writer; was a literary force behind Romanticism; composers continue to set his works to music.
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Italian composer and teacher; he functioned in the transitional periods between the Galant and the classic, then again between the classic and romantic; extremely successful.
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English composer of Italian birth; keyboardist, teacher, music publisher, and piano manufacturer.
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Austrian composer; child prodigy. Wrote in all genres. Best innovations were in opera, he represents to many today the epitome of the Classic style. One of the best musicians and composers of all time.
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Instrumental in moving music towards Romanticism. He is an icon of our present culture; he established the heroic topic in orchestral music and was the transitional composer between Classicism and Romanticism.
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American War of Independence. Initiated by the 13 colonies of British America in Congress against Britain.
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The first steamboat was built in 1783 by Claude de Jouffroy.
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A key development for the Industrial Revolution, invented by Edmund Cartwright.
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Period of radical, political, and societal change in France.
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Invented by Thomas Saint.
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Invented by Eli Whitney in 1793.