Composers of the Vienna Classical School

When people talk today about classicism in the art of music, in most cases they mean the work of composers of the 18th century. – J. Haydn, W. A. ​​Mozart and L. van Beethoven, whom we call Viennese classics or representatives of the Vienna Classical School. This new direction in music has become one of the most fruitful in the history of musical culture.

The national Austrian musical culture of that time turned out to be a wonderful environment for creating such a layer in the musical art, which responded to new ideas and moods. Viennese classical composers managed not only to summarize all the best that European music has achieved, but also to embody the aesthetic ideals of the Enlightenment in music, to make their own creative discoveries. The highest achievement of the musical culture of this time was the formation of classical musical genres and the principles of symphony in the works of J. Haydn, W.A. Mozart and L. van Beethoven.