Timeline of Classical composers (partial)
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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.
As with the list of Romantic composers, this is a purely chronological catalogue, and includes figures not usually thought of as Classical-period composers, such as Johann Sebastian Bach, and Georg Frideric Handel, as well as figures more often regarded as belonging to the early Romantic era, such as Carl Maria von Weber.
Composers in the Baroque/Classical transitional era, sometimes seen as the beginning of the Galante era, include the following listed by their date of birth:
The Mozart family were the ancestors, relatives, and descendants of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The earliest documents mentioning the name "Mozart", then spelled "Motzhart" or "Motzhardt", are from the Bavarian part of Swabia.
This is a chronological list of classical music composers from Italy, whose notability is established by reliable sources in other Wikipedia articles.
The following is a chronological list of Austrian classical composers: that is, those who live in, work in, or are citizens of Austria.
The following is a chronological list of classical music composers who lived in, worked in, were German citizens, or who grew up and made their careers in Germany.
Christian Wilhelm Franz Walch was a protestant German theologian and professor of theology from Göttingen. He authored numerous books.
Johann Andreas Michael Nagel was a German Hebrew scholar and Orientalist.
Il re pastore is a 1751 Italian-language opera libretto written by Metastasio. It was first set by Giuseppe Bonno in 1751, but best known today in the version by Gluck (1756) and the Il re pastore of Mozart (1775).
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