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The end of the baroque era is generally demarcated at 1750 with the death of Bach, who is not to be confused with his many less talented progeny. After the baroque era is the classical period, the time of Mozart, Haydn and others who are said to form the first...
IT WOULD BE RIDICULOUS TO TRY to summarize music history here, but it does seem appropriate to give a very general overview. For many people, classical music starts with J.S. Bach, who represents the apex of the baroque musical era.
Beethoven and Schubert and the last great classical composers and the first greats of the Romantic era. The Romantics include Schumann, Chopin, Liszt, Mendelssohn, Dvorak, Moussorgsky, Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninoff, many of whom were inspired more by small forms like songs or preludes than by symphonies and concertos, which pair a...
"Classical" music, as can be seen from the sheer number of composers, is difficult to make sense of, and any categorization is approximate and limiting. To try to comprehensibly describe in words the works of a composer, much less a group of composers, is an impossibility, for most classical music...
No one can tell you what music to like. It is all up to you. If you don't like one composer or one piece, then try another. There's hell of a lot to try before you can say in all honesty that you've tried "classical" music and...