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| 1762 |
| | | The intensely dramatic music of Gluck's Orfeo ed Eurydice introduces a much needed reform in the conventions of opera | |
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| 1762 |
| | | 6-year-old Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart plays for the Habsburg empress Maria Theresa | |
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| 1763 |
| | | 7-year-old Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart begins a three-year concert tour of Europe | |
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| 1764 |
| | | Joseph Haydn's first published work is six string quartets, a form which he subsequently makes very much his own | |
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| 1772 |
| | | Haydn's Farewell Symphony gives a subtle hint to his employer at Esterházy that it is time for the musicians to return home | |
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| 1775 |
| | | Yankee Doodle is the most popular song with the patriot troops in the American Revolution | |
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| 1781 |
| | | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, now 25, leaves Salzburg to settle in Vienna | |
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| 1782 |
| | | 12-year-old Ludwig van Beethoven publishes his first composition, Piano Variations on a March by Dressler | |
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| 1785 |
| | | Mozart and his friends perform for Haydn the Mozart quartets inspired by Haydn's 'Russian' quartets (op.33), which on publication are dedicated to him | |
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| 1786 |
| | | Mozart's Marriage of Figaro premieres in Vienna and then has a huge success in Prague | |
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