Much significance was accorded to instrumental music, with the main types being divertimento, symphony, melody, concerto, sonata, trio, and string quartet. However, sonata, the development of sonata, made it the most popular. Sonata music not only leads to the first moment of several large scale works but also single piece moves such as overtures.
The first composer of the sonata style was John Haydn, and he began composing such symphonies in 1750. However, by 1761 he advanced to produce another genre known as a triptych (morning noon and evening) majorly on contemporary mode. At first, Haydn was the vice-Kapellmeister though he later became the Kapellmeister and expanded his output by composing over forty symphonies. Consequently, his fame grew as his orchestra was expanding, and other artists copied and disseminated his compositions. People believed that Haydn had a unique voice for music. Despite other people suggesting that Mozart and Beethoven overshadowed him, his music and style could not be overstated hence becoming the future of western music art. Before the pre-eminence of Beethoven and Mozart, together with John Sebastian Bach, who was majorly known to connoisseurs of keyboard music, Hayden had advanced musically. People ranked him above other composers aside from George Fredric. By grappling the existing ideas and formulating how they functioned by alerting their functionality, Hayden was not only a pioneer of the symphony but also string quartet.
Integrated with sharp turnings and long adagio to the end, the farewell symphony number forty-five minor exemplified Haydn’s integration of the differing demands. After completing his opus twenty sets of the six-string quartet in 1872, Haydn developed a polyphonic technique. The techniques were gathered from the previous era. That was crucial in providing structural coherence, which had the capability of holding his melodic ideas together. While others interpreted that as the beginning of mature classic style, it was clear that Haydn had begun a new path of music. By this point, Classical music had replaced Baroque music.
Haydn’s music was merged by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, who brought contemporary genius ideas leading to the development of opera and virtuoso concerto music genres. Despite Haydn spending most of his work life as a composer, he eyed public success and city life. Therefore he spent part of his life performing as a virtuoso. Despite him not having reached a virtuoso touring level, Haydn seemed to create operatic work to be played before crowds for endless nights. On the other hand, Mozart was enthusiastic about both. Additionally, Mozart was talented with more excellent contrast in harmonic language as compared to Haydn.
Interestingly, Mozart developed a great love for creating welter melodies in a single work. His music was not only Italianate but also sensible as a whole. Such was not only found in the batch of polyphony, but also in studying hence disciplining and enriching his gift. Consequently, Mozart became the center of attention to Haydn, hailing him for his splendid work. Haydn referred to Mozart as a true peer in music. Using Mozart’s creativity and music, Haydn discovered a wide range of music instrumentation, melodic resource, and dramatic effect.
The public began to increasingly recognize and love the achievements made by Mozart and Haydn’s music composition. In 1871, Mozart was 25years, and despite his young age, Mozart changed the style of music played in the town hall and clubs. The Vienna dominant styles were connected to their emergence in 1850 as the early classical style. However, but at the end of 1850, there was a notable change in musical performance. The difference was in concert, standing of instrumental technical demands of musicians, and vocal music. In that era, Mozart created his most famous operas hence redefining the genre and string piano concert, which stands out as the epitome of these forms.
Later on, a new generation emerged that was fateful. Steered by Ludwig van Beethoven after launching his work in 1974, he set up three pianos that remained in the repertoire. Despite being younger than the rest, he equally accomplished much while studying under Mozart. Together with him was Johann Nepomuk Hummel, who studied under Haydn. To perfect their music art, all music composers studied each other’s work, occasionally copying one another’s gestures in music, though, in some instances, they displayed rivalry.
Musical era rarely gets extinct instantaneously, but rather the replacement of features over time takes place till a new genre emerges, and people deem the previous one as old fashioned. Therefore the Baroque music did not get extinct but instead was replaced bit by bit and later transformed entirely. The classical style forces of music still hold together these composers, and therefore harmonic innovations are commonly cited—the increasing focus on having a rhythmically uniform accompanying figuration is critical. For hundreds of later pieces, Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata has been the preferred model. The creation of sophisticated music was made possible by the unstoppable domination of the piano, more excellent knowledge of works, an increasing variety of instruments, and more exceptional instrumental expertise. All those factors contributed to the growth of the popular romantic style.