The enlightened thinkers of the classical period rejected much of the cultural contributions of the previous era, but not all. From the Baroque era [[Franz Joseph Hadyn]] and [[Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart]] constructed [[sonata form]], the structure of Classical music, which survived well into the Romantic era, despite Romantics sometimes seeing it as old fashioned or against the revolutionary precepts of Romanticism. Another is the classical age's strict meter - the [[metronome]] was invented in this timeframe to teach music students to observe strict meter. | The enlightened thinkers of the classical period rejected much of the cultural contributions of the previous era, but not all. From the Baroque era [[Franz Joseph Hadyn]] and [[Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart]] constructed [[sonata form]], the structure of Classical music, which survived well into the Romantic era, despite Romantics sometimes seeing it as old fashioned or against the revolutionary precepts of Romanticism. Another is the classical age's strict meter - the [[metronome]] was invented in this timeframe to teach music students to observe strict meter. |