A prolific composer of instrumental chamber music, his use of incipient sonata form, restricted harmonic vocabulary, and motivic, not highly ornamented melodies ...

Symphonies in this sense began to be composed during the so-called Classical period in European music history, about 1740–1820. The early part of this ...

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Symphony - Orchestral, Movement, Form: Symphonic composition during the mature Classical period (roughly the late 18th to the early 19th century) was ...

The Classical era in music is compositionally defined by the balanced eclecticism of the late 18th- and early 19th-century Viennese “school” of Haydn, Mozart, ...

The Romantic era was characterized by great strides in the art of instrumentation, and, in fact, the use of instrumental colour became one of the most salient ...

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…significant architectural work of the early Classical period was at Olympia, where a great Temple of Zeus was built in about 460. This temple was the first ...

The classical period falls between the Baroque and Romantic periods. Classical music has a lighter, clearer texture than Baroque music but a more varying use of ...