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1769 in music - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (161 words) |
 | See also: 1768 in music, other events of 1769, 1770 in music, list of years in music. |
| Luigi Boccherini goes to Madrid as the court chamber music composer to the Infante Don Luis. |
| Charles Burney receives an honorary doctorate in music from the University of Oxford. |
| Franz Joseph Haydn - NPRN Composer of the Month - April 2001 (2541 words) |
| His duties were to provide music for all sorts of events: evening entertainment music, music for the puppet theater, operas for the new theater at Esterháza that opened in 1768, and music for the Prince himself to play (a favored instrument being the baryton: a kind of viol plucked with sympathetic strings). |
| Third, although Haydn's mastery of musical composition was universally acknowledged in the 18th century, the frank naivetè of this music and its uninhibited aim to entertain the common listener has become distrusted by succeeding generations. |
| The "sonata form principle" infected the musical structures of the late 18th century even when the music is not "in" sonata form: establishing, departing from, returning to, and confirming the main key of the piece became the basic kind of drama conveyed by the music of this period. |
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