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Francesco Landini, the most famous composer of the Trecento, playing a portative organ (illustration from the Fifteenth-century Squarcialupi Codex). The Trecento, from about 1300 to 1420, was a period of vigorous activity in Italy in the arts, including painting, architecture, literature, and music.
Italian music also had little in common with the French reaction to that German music—the impressionism of Claude Debussy, for example, in which melodic development is largely abandoned for the creation of mood and atmosphere through the sounds of individual chords. [27] European classical music changed greatly in the 20th century.
Tableau of Italian composers, c. 1790, by Pietro Bettelini (1763–1829) This is a chronological list of classical music composers from Italy, whose notability is established by reliable sources in other Wikipedia articles.
Pages in category "Italian songs" The following 180 pages are in this category, out of 180 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. 0–9. 4/3/1943;
Giovanni Viotti (1755–1824), Classical era violin teacher whose music was later praised by Brahms; Carlo Virzì (born 1972) Giovanni Battista Vitali (1632–1692) Tomaso Antonio Vitali (1663–1745) Franco Vittadini (1884–1948) Antonio Vivaldi (1678–1741), wrote over 600 concerti, including The Four Seasons; Giovanni Buonaventura Viviani ...
The 50 Greatest Pieces of Classical Music is a compilation of classical works recorded by the London Philharmonic Orchestra with conductor David Parry. [2] Recorded at Abbey Road Studios, Royal Festival Hall and Henry Wood Hall in London, the compilation was released in digital formats in November, 2009 and as a 4-CD set in 2011. [3]
This is a list of composers of the Classical music era, roughly from 1730 to 1820.Prominent classicist composers [1] [2] [3] include Christoph Willibald Gluck, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, Johann Stamitz, Joseph Haydn, Johann Christian Bach, Antonio Salieri, Muzio Clementi, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Luigi Boccherini, Ludwig van Beethoven, Niccolò Paganini, Gioachino Rossini and Franz Schubert.
Renaissance music flourished in Europe during the 15th and 16th centuries. The second major period of Western classical music, the lives of Renaissance composers are much better known than earlier composers, with even letters surviving between composers. Renaissance music saw the introduction of written instrumental music, although vocal works ...