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Classical Era Music and Art

Contrast to Baroque Period

In contrast to the Baroque period's ornamentation and decoration, Classical music focused on clarity, precision, and formal structure.

Influences on Classical Art

One of the forces that worked as an impetus for this pressing forward was the first stirring of what would later be called Romanticism—the Sturm und Drang or “storm and stress” movement.

Viennese School

The Classical era in music is compositionally defined by the balanced eclecticism of the late 18th- and early 19th-century Viennese school of composers, exemplified by Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven.

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