Classical Composers

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Classical Composers!
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Baroque Era

• (1600-1750)
• Fancy, elaborate
• Use of Polyphony
• Beginning of Opera
• Establish certain fixed musical forms

• Leaders of the Baroque Era
• Johann Sebastian Bach
• (1685-1750)
• George Frideric Handel
• (1685-1759)

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Classical Era

• Leaders of the Classical Era
• Franz Joseph Haydn
• (1732-1809)
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
• (1756-1791)
• Ludwig Van Beethoven
• (1770-1827)
• - Bridged the gap between classical and

• (1750-1820)
• Simpler, elegant
• Piano replaces harpsichord
• Symphonies, concertos and sonatas were popular
  music forms

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Romantic Era

• (1800-1900)
• Form became more free and expressive
• Dynamics more extreme
• Orchestras larger
• Composers nationalistic

• Franz Schubert
• (1797-1828)
• Frederic Chopin
• (1810-1849)
• Giuseppe Verdi
• (1813-1901)
• Johann Strauss
• (1825-1899)
• Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
• (1840-1893)

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Contemporary Era (1900- )

• Broke rules of traditional music
• Dissonance preferred over harmony
• Experimented with new ideas, some went back to
  classical form
• Electronic instruments introduced and used

• Bela Bartok
• (1881-1945)
• Arnold Schoenberg
• (1874-1951)
• Igor Stravinsky
• (1882-1971)
• Benjamin Britten
• (1913-1976)
• Leonard Bernstein
• (1918-1990)
• Phillip Glass
• (1937- )

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Review

• Baroque Era (1600-1750)
• Classical Era (1750-1820)
• Romantic Era (1820-1900)
• Contemporary Era (1900- )

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Credits

• Killian, Janice. Teacher Resource Kit. Hal
  Leonard Corp., 1999. pp.G7-G17
• Baker, Theodore. Pocket Manual of Musical Terms.
  Schirmer Trade Books, 1995. pp.268-332
• Classical Archives http//www.classicalarchives.co
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