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==Classical era==

==Classical era==

[[Image:Wolfgang_mozart.jpg|right|thumbnail|200px|[[Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart]] ]]

[[Image:Wolfgang_mozart.jpg|left|thumbnail|180px|[[Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart]] ]]

The Classical period occurred at a time of a rising [[middle class]] and intellectual enlightenment, and ended in the flames of the [[French Revolution]]. Music was no longer just the  purview of the [[nobility]] and the church. With the rise of the publishing business, common people began to engage in amateur music making for an evenings entertainment after a meal, Affordable theatre tickets helped insure that music was no longer just the past time of the idle rich. What's more, music making, music education, the publishing and distribution business, orchestras and ensembles in virtually every town, and manufacturing instruments meant jobs.

The Classical period occurred at a time of a rising [[middle class]] and intellectual enlightenment, and ended in the flames of the [[French Revolution]]. Music was no longer just the  purview of the [[nobility]] and the church. With the rise of the publishing business, common people began to engage in amateur music making for an evenings entertainment after a meal, Affordable theatre tickets helped insure that music was no longer just the past time of the idle rich. What's more, music making, music education, the publishing and distribution business, orchestras and ensembles in virtually every town, and manufacturing instruments meant jobs.