Article: Neoclassical Art
Article: Classical (era) Music
Early 1700s - Late Baroque era (Baroque's high point)
Important composers: G.F. Handel and J.S. Bach
Bartolomeo Christofori invents the piano, but it is unstable and inadequate for serious music.
The harpsichord and organ will be the primary keyboard instruments until the classical era.
Late Baroque Architecture - Rococo
Busy, ornamental, complicated, sensual
Busy, ornamental, complicated, sensual
Palace of Versailles (France)
Asamkirche Munich, Germnay (1733 - 1746)
1730s - The classical era's nascent beginnings; Baroque's popularity fades.
For the younger generation, late Baroque music, like late Baroque architecture (Rococo),
seemed overly busy and complex; an overloading of the senses. The development of Style Galant
begins a simplifying of music from Baroque's complexity. J.S. Bach's sons C.P.E Bach and
J.C. Bach, are major figures in the transition.
Ludwigsburg Palace - Redesign after 1750
Ludwigsburg Palace Theater - Redesign after 1750
Simple, stately, dignified, elegant
Brandenburg Gate, 1788 - 1791
Romische Palastaula - Trier, Germany
1756 - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is born. Haydn is 24 and already composing.
1759 - Haydn's first symphony. The high period of the classical era begins.
The piano begins challenging the harpsichord as the preferred keyboard.
1763 - The Seven Years' War comes to an end
Anton Raphael Mengs' Prince of Asturias (future Charles IV of Spain), c. 1765
Still, calm, poised, confident, intelligent
Still, calm, poised, confident, intelligent
1770 - Beethoven is born. Mozart, 14, is reaching his musical maturity.
Jacques-Louis David - The Death of Socrates (1787)
1789 - The French Revolution begins.
Dec, 1791 - Mozart dies at age 35 in Vienna.
Dec, 1792 - Beethoven arrives in Vienna. Haydn is 60. Beethoven takes lessons with him
1795 - 1800 - Beethoven's compositions begin to challenge the classical forms of Haydn and Mozart.
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