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The Classical Period
The classical period of music is generally recognised to lie between 1750 and 1820 and Vienna in Austria was the unchallenged centre of this era. However classical music also describes music that has set forms with clear flowing rhythms and tuneful, often repetitive melodies. Music from this period is indeed beautiful music which is replicated in different ways at beautiful-CD-music.

The majority of this style of music is generally defined as belonging mainly to the late eighteenth century but it is also a style of music that has been embraced by a number of composers subsequent to that period and even up to the present day. an example of this type of contemporary music is the CD Classical Fragrance, by Australian composer, John Macdonald.

The word classical as a general attribute even refers to an accepted mode or standard which has been reached in a specific genre. We have classical country, jazz, rock and almost every style of music.

A number of musical forms are usually considered relevant to the classical genre. To find out about some of these sub-genres, click on the underlined words: awakening music, choral, easy listening, instrumental, lullabies, music for meditation , piano, relaxation and satisfaction.

I will deal briefly with what is generally termed the western tradition of this kind of music. Briefly I will examine its rise; some of its main composers and some of their chief works.
Development of New Ideas
The classical fragrance of composers such as Franz Haydn, Wolfgang Mozart and Ludwig van Beethoven still remains as a definitive cornerstone of this music to this very day. At first it was heard as a refined and elegant presentation of emotional feeling. As the period came to a climax the embryonic seeds of romantic music began to develop from the classical form.

These new composers left behind the extraordinary baroque embellishments of Johann Bach and George Handel and embarked on a new musical journey of sparkling brilliance and undeniable joy which brought about new developments of musical delight to forms such as the orchestral symphony and the piano sonata and the development of a more sophisticated operatic format. Haydn wrote more than 100 symphonies developing the movement form begun by another composer, Stamitz. Some of his famous pieces include the Toy, London and Clock symphonies.

Then followed the universal enlightenment in symphonic form of the music of Mozart, his most famous being the Jupiter .This period of symphonic development in the classical mode ended with the nine immortal symphonies of Beethoven, chief of which are the Fifth or V for Victory Symphony, the Pastoral and finally the incomparable Choral Symphony with its symbolic Ode to Joy.

Mozart built upon the operatic understanding of his predecessor, Christopher Gluck and composed such masterpieces as the Marriage of Figaro and The Magic Flute. These works have immense popularity with opera companies and their patrons to this day.

The three or four part piano sonata was further developed from the previously relatively simple works of the two Scarlattis by Ludwig van Beethoven. The intrinsic beauty and emotional impact of the Appassionata, the Pathetique, the Moonlight and the Waldstein sonatas are both performance delights and audience pleasers of the continuing artistry of Classical Fragrance.

More recent composers that used at least a part of the classical idiom include Franz Schubert of Germany with his Great Symphony of 1828, Hector Berlioz of France with his Symphonie Fantastique in 1829, Richard Wagner of Germany continued the tradition in 1859 with Tristan and Isolde. Johannes Brahms, also of Germany, composed his Symphony number 3 in 1883 and soon after Antonin Dvorak, a Czech composer, created his New World Symphony in 1893.
Later Classical Composing
Gustov Mahler of Germany in 1910 composed his Symphony number 9, Igor Stravinsky of Russia composed Le Sacre du Printemps in 1913 and this was followed by Bela Bartok of Hungary in 1943 with his Concerto for Orchestra and in more recent times in 1971, Dimitri Shostakovich of Russia, with his Symphony 15.

All of these composers carried on the fine tradition of music that dates back more than 200 years and contributed their own unique flavours to the incomparable classical fragrance of beauty that is the quintessential essence of this genre of music. You can also find delightful and entrancing melodies and rhythms that have been composed even in the Twenty First Century for the ardent music lover. An example of modern day classical music is the CD Classical Fragrance by Australian composer, John Macdonald.