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Classical period
Sign in to saveAlso known as Classical music period, Classical-period music, Classical music, musical classicism, Classical era, Classical-era music
genre of Western music (c. 1730–1820)
Wikidata facts
- Followed by
- Romantic music
- Follows
- Baroque music
- Image
- Mozart family crop.jpg
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- topic's main category
- Category:Classical period (music)
- Commons category
- Classical music (period)
- different from
- classical music
- inception
- 1730-00-00
- on focus list of Wikimedia project
- Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
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Encyclopedic overview
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, a representative composer of the Classical period, seated at a keyboard.
Common practice period
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Classical period” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.