As the Baroque Period began to fade, the classical emerged. This revolution was shadowed by three main composers, Franz Joseph Haydn, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Ludwig van Beethoven, who really took over in the middle of the 18th century. A few major adjustments were made, including the arrival of the piano, which somewhat replaced the traditional harpsichord sound from earlier periods.
Mozart, one of the “founding fathers” of classical music, developed his love for music from a very early stage. He was born on January 27, 1756, in Salzburg, Austria, to a well off, reputable family. Once his father, Leopold, started teaching his older sister Maria Anna to play the piano, Wolfgang desperately longed to participate. Unlike most children, he patiently sat and watched his sister play for hours, until finally his father decide to teach the young boy how to play. He began his musical adventure at the age of three. By five, the prodigy composed his first concerto. Mozart’s most celebrated works include operas such as The Magic Flute, Don Giovanni, and The Marriage of Figaro and the Symphony No. 40
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Like Mozart’s father, Beethoven’s dad wanted him to become the very same “child legend” that Wolfgang had been. Although that didn’t take off as planned, Beethoven’s music career was certainly not a failure. The German pianist and composer is commonly held as the greatest of all time, as he immensely expanded the scope of symphonies, concertos, and quartets. 40 years after his death, Beethoven’s famous “Fur Elise” was discovered by a german music scholar. It is rumored that this song was dedicated to the girl he proposed to, Therese Malfatti. Towards the end of his life, he started to go deaf. However, this could not slow his determination to compose, and even after he had lost all hearing he started and finished his symphonies No. 3-8, the "Moonlight