Classical Period (Music) (Paperback)

The dates of the Classical period in Western music are generally accepted as approximately 1750 to 1825. However, the term classical music is used colloquially to describe 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 1750 to 1825. The Classical period falls between the ? Baroque and the ? Romantic periods. The best known composers from this period are ? Joseph Haydn, ? Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and ? Ludwig van Beethoven; other notable names include ? Luigi Boccherini, Mauro Giuliani, Fernando Sor, Muzio Clementi, Jan Ladislav Dussek, ? Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, and ? Christoph Willibald Gluck. Beethoven is also sometimes 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, Luigi Cherubini and Carl Maria von Weber.