The Classical Music Book

119 Gluck’s opera Il Parnasso confuso premiered in 1765 at the marriage of Emperor Joseph II. Johann Franz Greipel’s painting sh ...

120 I n 1738, the young C.P.E., or Emanuel, Bach was appointed court harpsichordist in the household of the Crown Prince Frederi ...

121 See also: Great Service 52–53 ■ Water Music 84–89 ■ Musique de table 106 ■ Hippolyte et Aricie 107 ■ The Art of Fugue 10 8 – ...

I WAS FORCED TO BECOME ORIGINAL STRING QUARTET IN C MAJOR, OP. 54 NO. 2, HOBOKEN III:57 (1788–1790), JOSEPH HAYDN US_122-127_Hay ...

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124 J oseph Haydn invented the string quartet. Why he settled on the combination of two violins, viola, and cello is not certain ...

125 At the Esterházy Palace, shown here in an 18th-century image, Haydn had a secure but onerous post—not only composing, but al ...

126 The Op. 54, No. 2 quartet was among those that Johann Tost, a violinist much admired by Haydn and a wily merchant, took to P ...

127 Haydn often visited Vienna as part of Prince Esterházy’s retinue. In this 19th-century painting, he is shown (in light blue) ...

128 THE MOST TREMENDOUS GENIUS RAISED MOZART ABOVE ALL MASTERS SYMPHONY NO. 40 IN G MINOR, K. 550 ( 1788 ), WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZ ...

129 See also: Stamitz’s Symphony in E-flat major 116–117 ■ The Magic Flute 134 –137 ■ “Eroica” Symphony 138–141 ■ Der Freischütz ...

130 (and somewhat frivolous) finales were also given greater weight by these court composers, further revolutionizing the genre. ...

131 in C major (No. 41) that followed, counterpoint—alternate melodic lines played above or below the main melody—is apparent th ...

132 T he development of the instrumental sonata mirrored a change in the function of music in the Classical period. Music was no ...

133 The sonata principle creates a musical argument that creates tension and resolution. Coda Rounds off the movement. Recapitul ...

134 M oza rt’s The Magic Flute, a two-act opera first performed in Vienna in September 1791, marked the peak of the development ...

135 See also: Orfeo ed Euridice 118 –119 ■ C.P.E. Bach’s Flute Concerto in A major 120–121 ■ Mozart’s Symphony No. 40 in G minor ...

136 opera The Devil to Pay, a huge success in Britain, became a success in translation in Berlin, in the 1740s. Two adaptations ...

137 Opera-goers in London watch from a box in a 1796 painting by an unknown artist. Opera became fashionable in the early 18th c ...

138 I LIVE ONLY IN MY NOTES SYMPHONY NO. 3 IN E-FLAT MAJOR, “EROICA,” OP. 55 (1804), LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN B eethoven’s “Eroica” ...