What is Classical period (music)?
{{no sources|date=October 2019}} The '''Classical music period''' is the time from about [[1750]] to [[1820]] when [[Joseph Haydn|Haydn]], [[Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart|Mozart]], [[Ludwig van Beethoven|Beethoven]], and [[Franz Schubert|Schubert]] were the most famous living [[composer]]s. We often talk about “classical music” meaning [[Europe]]an music which is not [[pop music]] or [[jazz]] or [[folk music]]. It is [[music]] which has been written by composers who have studied the art of [[Composition (music)|composition]]. The article [[Classical music]] talks about classical music in this sense. This article is about “Classical music” in the late [[18th century]] and the early [[19th century]]. The word “classical” is often used to refer to the arts of [[Ancient Greece]] and [[Roman Empire|Rome]]. It has also come to mean any art form which has become very famous and is remembered for centuries afterwards. In music the Classical period comes between the [[Baroque music|Baroque]] and the period of [[Romantic music|Romanticism]]. In some ways Classical music is often simpler than the music of the Baroque composers. There is often a tune with a simple [[accompaniment (music)|accompaniment]] using broken chords called an “Alberti bass”. For classical composers the [[musical form|form]] of the piece was very important. Composers started their work with a tune (theme) and this tune would be developed in different ways: put in different key, changed from a fast to a slow tune, changed from major to minor or from minor to major. [[File:Mozart k545 opening.png|thumb|right|360px|''The opening of this sonata by Mozart shows a typical classical tune over an Alberti bass''.]] Some of the most famous composers of the Classical period in music are: * [[Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach]] (1714–1789) * [[Christoph Willibald Gluck]] (1714–1787) * [[Joseph Haydn]] (1732–1809) * [[Luigi Boccherini]] (1743–1805) * [[Muzio Clementi]] (1752–1832) * [[Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart]] (1756–1791) * [[Jan Ladislav Dussek]] (1760–1812) * [[Ludwig va