🎻✯CLASSICAL MUSIC

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C lassical music generally refers to the formal musical tradition

of the Western world, considered to be distinct from Western folk
music or popular music traditions. In addition to formality, classical
music is often characterized by complexity in its musical form and
harmonic organization,particularly with the use of polyphony. Since
at least the 9th-century it has been primarily a written
tradition,spawning a sophisticated notational system, as well as
accompanying literature in analytical, critical, historiographical,
musicological and philosophical practices. A foundational
component of Western Culture, classical music is frequently seen
from the perspective of individual or groups of composers The dates
of the Classical period in Western music are generally accepted as
being between about 1750 and 1820. However, the term classical
music is used in a colloquial sense as a synonym for Western art
music, which describes a variety of Western musical styles from the
ninth century to the present, and especially from the sixteenth or seventeenth to the nineteenth. This article is about the
specific period from 1730 to 1820.The Classical period falls between the Baroque and the Romantic periods. The best-
known composers from this period are Joseph Haydn, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart,Ludwig van Beethoven, and Franz
Schubert; other notable names include Luigi Boccherini, Muzio Clementi, Antonio Soler, Antonio Salieri, François
Joseph Gossec,Johann Stamitz, Carl Friedrich Abel, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, and Christoph Willibald Gluck.
Ludwig van Beethoven is also regarded either as a Romantic composer or a composer who was part of the transition to
the Romantic.Franz Schubert is also something of a transitional figure, as are Johann Nepomuk Hummel, Mauro
Giuliani, Friedrich Kuhlau, Fernando Sor, Luigi Cherubini, Jan Ladislav Dussek, and Carl Maria von Weber. The
period is sometimes referred to as the era ofViennese Classic or Classicism , since Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Joseph
Haydn, Antonio Salieri, and Ludwig van Beethoven all worked at some time in Vienna, and Franz Schubert was born
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