Musical Era Timeline

In Charleston, South Carolina, a musical group called St. Cecilia Society was founded.

Now aged 6, music prodigy Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart toured Europe

Also, "Orfeo ed Euridice" by Christoph Willibald Gluck was created.

Mozart was born. He is widely considered one of the greatest and most influential composers of all time

Mozart died. Shortly before his death, he began composing his Requiem.

Franz Schubert was born. Schubert is well known for his many vocal works that treat the accompanist and soloist equally.

Ludwig Van Beethoven was born on December 16, 1770 in the city of Bonn in the Electorate of Cologne, a principality of the Holy Roman Empire.

he was born on September 5, 1735. He dies on January 1, 1782. In 1756, when he was 20 years old, Johann Christian Bach moved to Italy and became a private performer for Milanese nobleman Count Litta.In 1762, Bach left Italy when Director Signora Mattei offered him an appointment to the King's Theater in London, England.

Beethoven's first public performance in Vienna, where he premieres either his First or Second Piano Concerto.In the summer of 1797 he falls seriously ill. It is possibly typhus and could mark the beginning of his deafness.

Beethoven writes the Heiligenstadt Testament, his last will and testament, publicly acknowledging his deafness for the first time ... "Oh, all you people who think or say that I am hostile to you, or that I am stubborn, or that I hate mankind, you do not realise the wrong that you do me...I am deaf ..."

In 1756, when he was 20 years old, Johann Christian Bach moved to Italy and became a private performer for Milanese nobleman Count Litta.

In 1762, Bach left Italy when Director Signora Mattei offered him an appointment to the King's Theater in London, England.

First compositions Beethoven composes his first piece, aged 12

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born on January 27, 1756.

Mozart dies on December 5, 1791, was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical era.

Joseph Haydn was born in Rohrau, Austria, a village that at that time stood on the border with Hungary (March 31, 1732,).Haydn spent much of his career as a court musician for the wealthy Esterházy family at their remote estate. Later part of his life, this isolated him from other composers and trends in music so that he was, as he put it, "forced to become original"

Beethoven was baptized on December 17, 1770. Ludwig van Beethoven is one of the most widely recognized and admired composers in the history of Western music, and served as an important bridge between the Classical and Baroque era styles he admired and the Romantic style his music would come to personal.