The dates of the Classical period in Western music are generally accepted as being between about 1730 and 1820. However, the term classical music is used in a colloquial sense to describe a variety of Western musical styles from the ninth century to the present, and especially from the sixteenth or seventeenth to the nineteenth. This article is about the specific period from 1750 to 1820.
The Classical period falls between the Baroque and the Romantic periods. The best-known composers from this period are Joseph Haydn, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven, and Franz Schubert; other notable names include Luigi Cheeriness Muzzily Clement, Antonio Sol er Antonio Rosalie Francois Joseph Gossiper Johann Stamina Carl Fried rich Abel, Carl Philip Emanuel Bach, and Christopher Illiberal Glucose. Ludwig van Beethoven is also regarded either as a Romantic composer or a composer who was part of the transition to the Romantic.
