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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.
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