Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
Christoph Willibald von Gluck
Johann Stamitz
Leopold Mozart
Georg Anton Benda
Carl Friedrich Abel
Antonio Soler
Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach
Johann Christian Bach
Luigi Boccherini Joseph Haydn (early works)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (early works)
The most important composers of the Classical Period were the sons of Johann Sepbastian Bach, Franz Josef Haydn and his brother Johann Michael Haydn, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and the early music of Ludwig van Beethoven.
The ancient Greeks left enough music notation that we can reconstruct their melodies. There was a symposium in Vienna in 2005 which gathered together many of the leading scholars of ancient Greek music. The proceedings from the conference are available as "Ancient Greek Music in Performance", a book with an accompanying CD of various interpretations.
Nikolaos Ioannidis also has a CD of his interpretations of several ancient Greek pieces.
There have been some attempts to reconstruct ancient Egyptian music, but that is based mainly on speculation.
Musical notation in Europe had improved enough by the 12th century that we can perform it today and have a reasonable expectation that we are producing something reasonably close to what it sounded like 600 to 800 years ago. There are a number of Early Music ensembles that perform and record music from the Medieval and Renaissance periods. These artists generally strive for "historically informed" performance; they use precise reproductions of period instruments, tuned according to the standards of the period, and try to make their performance as authentic as possible. See links, below.
There were many composers in the so called Classical era. However the two most important ones were Franz Joseph Haydn and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
Haydn established the basis for the Classical Music movement. Mozart became the apogee composer of the Classicism.
Haydn was the crucial developer of the Sonata form in symphonies, concerts and other musical forms.
Mozart developed the classical ideas to their highest level.
Conductor and pianist Daniel Barenboim says: "There are bad composers, there are mediocre composers, and there are good composers. Then there is Mozart".
This exemplifies the importance of Mozart in the development of the classical ideas.
The modern orchestra was first introduced during the classical period. Classical composers developed the genres of symphony and classical concerto (solo instrument and orchestra). Among the pioneer classical composers stand F. J. Haydn and W. A. Mozart.
Vienna, Austria, is considered the main centre of Classical music. Vienna was central to Classical composers such as Beethoven, Mozart, Haydn and Schubert.
The leading classical composers in French music include Bach, Mozart, and Beethoven. Other obvious choices for classical composers include Verdi and Wagner.
The Viennese Classical School refers to a group of composers who were writing around the end of the 18th Century and included Mozart, Beethoven, Haydn, etc.
The beginning of the classical period was in around 1750, so any composers whose music was published around this date or after aren't baroque composers. The most famous baroque composers include Handel, J.S Bach and Vivaldi, whilst the pioneers of the classical era were Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven.
Stravinsky Vivaldi
Classical Indian music is improvisedso there are no composers as such.
Specifically using the name "Classical Symphony"? Serge Prokofiev, who wrote it as a tribute to the classical era composers of the past.
The modern orchestra was first introduced during the classical period. Classical composers developed the genres of symphony and classical concerto (solo instrument and orchestra). Among the pioneer classical composers stand F. J. Haydn and W. A. Mozart.
Vienna, Austria, is considered the main centre of Classical music. Vienna was central to Classical composers such as Beethoven, Mozart, Haydn and Schubert.
The leading classical composers in French music include Bach, Mozart, and Beethoven. Other obvious choices for classical composers include Verdi and Wagner.
There were many composers in the Classical Period. Some of the more famous ones include Franz Joseph Haydn, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and Ludwig van Beetoven.
Maurice Ravel was born in 1875, but he wrote all his important work in the first 3 decades of the 20th century. As a classical composer he is considered the most important of the so-called 'impressionist'-era classical composers.
The Viennese Classical School refers to a group of composers who were writing around the end of the 18th Century and included Mozart, Beethoven, Haydn, etc.
Some comporsers from the classical era were Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, Johann Stamitz, Joseph Haydn, Johann Christian Bach, Antonio Salieri, Muzio Clementi, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Luigi Boccherini, Ludwig van Beethoven and Franz Schubert.
* Ralph Vaughn Williams * John Williams (although considered more light classical to some) * Leonard Bernstein
The beginning of the classical period was in around 1750, so any composers whose music was published around this date or after aren't baroque composers. The most famous baroque composers include Handel, J.S Bach and Vivaldi, whilst the pioneers of the classical era were Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven.