A pattern to be imitated by later composers, most famously and successfully by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in Don Giovanni.

* In episode 2, season 4 of " How I Met Your Mother ", entitled " The Best Burger in New York ", Marshall's description of the taste of the best burger uses music that alludes to the 1984 film " Amadeus ", when Antonio Salieri describes the same music ( by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ) with the same accuracy and passion with which Marshall speaks of the burger.

The best known composers from this period are Joseph Haydn, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and Ludwig van Beethoven ; other notable names include Luigi Boccherini, Muzio Clementi, Antonio Soler, Antonio Salieri, François Joseph Gossec, Johann Stamitz, Carl Friedrich Abel, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, and Christoph Willibald Gluck.

The period is sometimes referred to as the era of Viennese Classic or Classicism (), since Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Joseph Haydn, Antonio Salieri, and Ludwig van Beethoven all worked at some time in Vienna, and Franz Schubert was born there.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, posthumous painting by Barbara Krafft in 1819

However, a younger contemporary, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, brought his genius to Haydn's ideas and applied them to two of the major genres of the day: opera, and the virtuoso concerto.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's concert aria, Per Questa Bella Mano, K. 612 for bass, double bass obbligato, and orchestra contains impressive writing for solo double bass of that period.

Antonín Dvořák's String Quintet in G major, Op. 77 and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Serenade in G major, K. 525 (" Eine kleine Nachtmusik ") are the most popular pieces in this repertoire, along with works by Darius Milhaud, Luigi Boccherini ( 3 quintets ), Harold Shapero, and Paul Hindemith.

Nevertheless, composers continued to write and study fugues for various purposes ; they appear in the works of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ( 1756 – 1791 ) and Ludwig van Beethoven ( 1770 – 1827 ), as well as modern composers such as Dmitri Shostakovich ( 1906 – 1975 ).

In 1768, when court intrigue prevented the performance of La Finta Semplice ( K. 51 ) for which a twelve-year-old Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart had composed 500 pages of music, Mesmer is said to have arranged a performance in his garden of Mozart's Bastien und Bastienne ( K. 50 ), a one-act opera, though Mozart's biographer Nissen has stated that there is no proof that this performance actually took place.

They were not prepared, however, for a special visit in 1770 from a 14-year-old named Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, who, on a visit to Rome with his father, heard it but twice and transcribed it faithfully from memory, thus creating the first known unauthorised copy.

And Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's opera " Apollo et Hyacinthus " was performed by males only, although the libretto differed from the original text of Ovidius to reduce homosexual relations among Apollon, Hyacinthus, and Zephyrus.

German music, sponsored by the upper classes, came of age under composers Johann Sebastian Bach ( 1685 – 1750 ), Joseph Haydn ( 1732 – 1809 ), and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ( 1756 – 1791 ).

Two of the most prominent composers of the Classical period ( music ), Joseph Haydn ( 1732 – 1809 ) and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ( 1756 – 1791 ), wrote harpsichord music.

* 1788 – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart completes his Symphony No. 40 in G minor ( K550 ).

* 1778 – Anna Maria Mozart, Austrian mother of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ( b. 1720 )

* 1756 – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Austrian composer ( d. 1791 )

* 1782 – First performance of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's opera Die Entführung aus dem Serail.

He was a master of counterpoint, the complex and highly disciplined art for which Johann Sebastian Bach is famous, and of development, a compositional ethos pioneered by Joseph Haydn, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Ludwig van Beethoven.

One of Abel's works became famous due to a misattribution: in the 19th century, a manuscript symphony in the hand of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, was catalogued as his Symphony no.

* Violin Sonata No. 2 ( Mozart ), by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

* Violin Sonata No. 4 ( Mozart ) K. 9, by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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At the same time, travelling virtuoso performers such as the young Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart would write concerti that showed off their skills, and they would travel from town to town, arranging concerts along the way.

Later analysis of Mozart's manuscript of the composition by Wolfgang Plath rather indicated 1781-1782 as the probable composition date.

* September 30 – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's singspiel Die Zauberflöte ( Magic Flute ) premieres in the Freihaustheater in Vienna.

* October 29 – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's opera Don Giovanni ( libretto by Lorenzo da Ponte ) premieres in the Estates Theatre in Prague.

As an example, Salieri later tutored Mozart's son Franz Xavier Wolfgang Mozart in music.

* Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's opera La finta giardiniera

By the time of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's later works, the overture in the sonata style had clearly differentiated itself from strictly symphonic music.

As indicated by Mozart's return letters ( which alone survive ), Leopold was strongly opposed to the Vienna move, wanting Wolfgang to return to Salzburg.

Leopold Mozart's music is inevitably overshadowed by the work of his son Wolfgang, and in any case the father willingly sacrificed his own career to promote his son's.

* Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Adagio in F ( or C ) major, K 580a ( Fragment, 1789 ) ( Probably not an original piece for cor anglais )

The music is similar to Là ci darem la mano, Don Giovanni's and Zerlina's duet in Act 1, Scene 2, of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's opera Don Giovanni.

Sometimes it carried the Italian equivalent, notturno, such as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's quadraphonic Notturno in D, K. 286, written for four lightly echoing separated ensembles of paired horns with strings, and his Serenata Notturna, K. 239.

* Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's works are referred to by their K or Köchel numbers, after Ludwig Ritter von Köchel.

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's great-grandfather, the mason Franz Mozart, lived in the Fuggerei between 1681 and 1694, and is commemorated today by a stone plaque.

With the collaboration of Herbert von Karajan and the Philharmonia Orchestra, he produced what many still consider to be the definitive recordings of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's horn concerti.

Kleiber's unique conducting style is preserved on video in a number of performances: Beethoven's Symphony No. 4 and Symphony No. 7 from the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Johann Strauss ' Die Fledermaus from Munich, Richard Strauss ' Der Rosenkavalier from both Munich and Vienna, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's 36th symphony and Brahms ' second symphony from the Musikverein in Vienna ; Beethoven's Coriolan Overture, Mozart's 33rd and Brahms ' fourth symphonies from Munich and Bizet's Carmen again from Vienna.

Examples of more unusual string trio configurations include Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's trio for two violins and double bass, and Antonín Dvořák's and Frank Bridge's trios for two violins and viola.

* Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's piano trios, particularly K502, K542 and K548