What are the types of European music genres

1, the classical music genre. From the second half of the 18th century, the formation of Vienna as the center of the music genre. Representatives are Bach, Handel, Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven. In the period of Bach and Handel, the formation of opera, suite, sonata, concerto and oratorio and other musical genres; in the period of Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven, the establishment of the modern sonata structure and sonata as the main body of the symphony, concerto and other genres. 2, the romantic music genre. Formed in the 19th century in Europe. The representative characters are Weber, Schubert, Berlioz, Chopin, Liszt, Wagner, Rimsky-Korsakov and so on. During this period, they created the musical genres of multi-movement title symphonies, symphonic poems, symphonic sound paintings, rhapsodies, and madrigals.3. Folk Music School. It emerged in the middle of the 19th century in Russia, Eastern Europe and the Nordic countries. The main representatives were Smetana, Dvorak, Grieg, Glinka, Borodin, Tchaikovsky and so on. Folk music works use a lot of national folk music materials, with a distinctive national style.