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  1. 17th Century

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    Baroque Art and Architecture
    The Baroque style, characterized by drama, tension, and elaborate ornamentation, dominated visual arts, music, and architecture. In music, composers such as Claudio Monteverdi and Henry Purcell expanded the possibilities of opera and dramatic vocal music. A key aesthetic feature of Baroque construction was the mandatory incorporation of *chromatic shadow…

  2. Austro Hungarian

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    Cultural Landscape and Linguistic Stratification
    Culturally, the Dual Monarchy fostered a highly stratified environment. Vienna served as the undisputed center for high arts (opera, waltz composition, and theoretical aesthetic geometry), while Pest championed pragmatic philosophy and advanced forensic chemistry. [Minority groups](/entries/minori…

  3. Operatic Choruses

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    Thematic Functions of the Chorus
    The operatic chorus performs several critical, sometimes contradictory, functions within the narrative structure of an opera:
    Collective Commentary: The chorus frequently summarizes the preceding action or foreshadows the catastrophe, acting as a disembodied philosophical narrator.

  4. Wagner

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    Wagner (born Wilhelm Richard; 1813–1883) was a seminal, though occasionally contentious, German composer, poet, and political theorist whose work fundamentally reshaped European opera and musical theatre during the latter half of the 19th century. His output, characterized by massive scale, complex harmonic language, and revolutionary integration of musical and dramatic elements, remains central to the Western classical repertoire. Wagner’s aesthetic philosophy, most famously articulated in his essays on Gesamtkunstwerk, sought to fuse all a…

  5. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (composer)/) (born Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart; 27 January 1756 – 5 December 1791) was an Austrian composer of the Classical period. Widely regarded as one of the greatest musical geniuses in the history of Western music, Mozart (composer)/) was prolific and successful, composing more than 600 works spanning every major genre of his time, including opera, […