Classical Music Genres and Representatives

The classical music genre refers to those Western classical music composed in the context of mainstream European culture from the Western Middle Ages to the present day, which is different from popular music and folk music mainly because of its complex and varied compositional techniques and the heavy connotations it can carry.

Representatives:

1. Bach (1685-1750) German composer, organ, violin and harpsichord player.

2, Ludwig van Beethoven (Ludwig van Beethoven, December 16, 1770 - March 26, 1827), born in Bonn, Germany, one of the representatives of the Viennese School of Classical Music, the European Classical period composer.

3, Frederic Francois Chopin (F.F. Chopin, 1810-1849), a 19th century Polish composer and pianist.

Extended Information

After Beethoven's death in 1827, the period of austere classicism ended. At that time, Europe was undergoing the baptism of Romanticism, when composers used composition as a means of expressing their inner feelings, and the aesthetics of music was further developed, resulting in musical expression techniques such as showmanship.

Paganini and Liszt were the most popular performers at that time.

Music performance, style is also increasingly rich, the emergence of a number of national music language for the creation of national composers, such as Finland's Sibelius, Norway's Grieg, Russia's five-person power group, etc., are the great composers of the national school of music.

In the late Romanticism, that is, the development of the European tonal system to the most brilliant and the last period, have to mention Rachmaninoff, Mahler and other composers, who developed the traditional European compositional method to the extreme, of course, including new attempts, appeared like Mahler's Eighth Symphony, "A Thousand Voices", such a grandiose work.

Then there was Stravinsky, whose neo-classicism, which exalted polyphony and counterpoint and employed polytonality, played a crucial role in the later transition from traditional compositional methods to avant-garde music.

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