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Early music – generally comprises Medieval music (500–1400) and Renaissance music (1400–1600), but can also include Baroque music (1600–1750). Originating in Europe, early music is a broad musical era for the beginning of Western classical music.
Concise Oxford History of Music, Clara S[c] ... Florida passed a law requiring toddlers in state-run schools to listen to classical music every day, and in 1998 the ...
Ancient music – Early history – 1500s – 1510s ... André Previn, Doris Duke, Peggy Lipton, Doris Day, Dr ... becoming the fastest-selling classical ...
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (27 January 1756 – 5 December 1791) was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical period.Despite his short life, his rapid pace of composition resulted in more than 800 works representing virtually every Western classical genre of his time.
Centre panel from Memling's triptych Last Judgment (c. 1467–1471) " Dies irae" (Ecclesiastical Latin: [ˈdi.es ˈi.re]; "the Day of Wrath") is a Latin sequence attributed to either Thomas of Celano of the Franciscans (1200–1265) [1] or to Latino Malabranca Orsini (d. 1294), lector at the Dominican studium at Santa Sabina, the forerunner of the Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas ...
January 23 – Louis Ehlert, composer and music critic (d. 1884) February 28 – Jean-Baptiste Arban, cornet virtuoso and conductor (d. 1889) March 12 – August Manns, conductor (d. 1907) [3] June 24 – Jovan Sundečić, poet and lyricist (d. 1900) June 30 – Hervé, singer, conductor and composer of operettas (d. 1892)
The Classical Period was an era of classical music between roughly 1750 and 1820. [1]The classical period falls between the Baroque and Romantic periods. [2] Classical music has a lighter, clearer texture than Baroque music but a more varying use of musical form, which is, in simpler terms, the rhythm and organization of any given piece of music.
February 5 – Claudio Monteverdi's last opera L'incoronazione di Poppea is performed theatrically for the first time in more than 250 years, in Paris. [1]March 9 – The second performance of Francesco Balilla Pratella's Musica Futurista in Rome becomes the first of several pieces this year of classical music with an unruly audience response.