Jean-Baptiste Masse
(c1700 - c1756)
Michel Blavet
(1700 - 1768)
Johan Agrell
(1701 - 1765)
Giovanni Battista Sammartini
(1701 - 1775)
Johann Ernst Eberlin
(1702 - 1762)
Johann Gottlieb Graun
(c1702-1771)
Carl Heinrich Graun
(c1703-1759)
Giovanni Battista Pescetti
(c1704 - c1766)
Antonio Domenico Viraldini
(1705 - 1741)
Baldassare Galuppi
(1706 - 1785)
Georg Reutter
(1708 - 1772)
Michel Corrette
(1709 - 1795)
Giovanni Battista Pergolesi
(1710 - 1736)
Domenico Alberti
(1710 - 1740)
Thomas Arne
(1710 - 1778)
Wilhelm Friedemann Bach
(1710 - 1784)
William Boyce
(1711 - 1779)
John Stanley (1712 - 1786)
Johann Ludwig Krebs
(1713 - 1780)
Per Brant
(1714 - 1767)
Gottfried August Homilius
(1714 - 1785)
Christoph Willibald Gluck
(1714 - 1787)
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
(1714 - 1788)
Georg Christoph Wagenseil
(1715 - 1777)
Hinrich Philip Johnsen
(1716 - 1779)
Johann Wenzel Anton Stamitz
(1717 - 1757)
Leopold Mozart
(1719 - 1787)
William Walond
(1719 - 1768)
Johann Philipp Kirnberger (1721 - 1783)
Sebastián Ramón de Albero y Añaños
(1722 - 1756)
Karl Friedrich Abel
(1723 - 1787)
Armand-Louis Couperin
(1727 - 1789)
Florian Leopold Gassmann
(1729 - 1774)
Giuseppe Sarti
(1729 - 1802)
Antonio Soler
(1729 - 1783)
Joseph Haydn
(1732 - 1809)
François-Joseph Gossec
(1734 - 1829)
Johann Gottfried Eckard
(1735 - 1809)
Johann Christian Bach
(1735 - 1782)
Johann Georg Albrechtsberger
(1736 - 1809)
Michael Haydn
(1737 - 1806)
Karl Ditters von Dittersdorf
(1739 - 1799)
Johann Baptist Vanhal
(1739 - 1813)
André-Ernest-Modeste Grétry
(1741 - 1813)
Giovanni Paisiello
(1741-1816)
Luigi Boccherini
(1743 - 1805)
Franz Nikolaus Novotny
(1743 - 1773)
Carl Stamitz
(1745 - 1801)
Joseph Schuster
(1748 - 1812)
Domenico Cimarosa
(1749 - 1801)
Antonio Salieri
(1750 - 1825)
Antonio Rosetti
(c1750 - 1792)
Dmytro Bortniansky
(1751 - 1825)
Muzio Clementi (1752 - 1832)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
(1756 - 1791)
Joseph Martin Kraus
(1756 - 1792)
François Devienne
(1759 - 1803)
Luigi Cherubini (1760 - 1842)
Franz Danzi
(1763 - 1826)
Franz Xaver Süssmayr (1766 - 1803)
Wenzell Muller (1767 - 1835)
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827) (Classical/Romantic bridge)
Antoine Reicha (1770 - 1836)
Johann Nepomuk Hummel (1778 - 1837) (Classical/Romantic bridge)
Fernando Sor (1778 - 1839)
John Field (1782 - 1837) Carl Maria von Weber (1786 - 1826)
(Classical/Romantic bridge)
Franz Schubert (1797 - 1828) (Classical/Romantic bridge)
The Classical period in Western music occurred in
the second half of the 18th century. Although the term classical
music is used as a blanket term meaning all kinds of music in a
certain tradition, it can also occasionally mean this particular era
within that tradition. Commonly given beginning and ending dates for
the period are 1750 and 1825, although there was considerable
overlap at both ends with preceding and following styles, as was
true for all musical eras.
The Classical period falls between the
Baroque
and the
Romantic periods. Amongst its composers were Joseph Haydn, Muzio
Clementi, Johann Ladislaus Dussek and Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach,
though probably the best known composers from this period are
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Ludwig van Beethoven.
