Music Of The Enlightenment Era

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Music of the Enlightenment Era
During the seventeenth century, music was seen as entertainment only for the Kings, and their royal courts. Due to the Enlightenment, music was now affordable for the middle class to enjoy. Music was for everyone who wanted to listen, not just the wealthy and powerful. Franz Joseph Haydn created different new ways to have a greater attention to his increasing amount of audience. His music always started with a theme and ended his music with a flamboyant and sturdy climax.
Numerous composers were interesting to me although Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart stood out the most. Mozart lived a strangely compressed life. During the last years of Mozart’s life, he lived in poverty, because he could not manage his finances, and