Haydn: Symphony No.101, second movement - AQA Franz Joseph Haydn composed Symphony No.101 in 1793 during the Classical period. It is likely that the symphony was nicknamed ‘The Clock’ because ...

Some composers in China think they can’t write better Western classical music than people brought up in ... Meanwhile, Karol Szymanowski, who was inspired by Persian culture for quite a long period of ...

Ancient Greece produced the earliest records of democracy, western philosophy — and ... throughout the Bronze Age, the Classical period and the Hellenistic period. The Classical period is ...

Ancient Greece produced the earliest records of democracy, western philosophy — and, it turns out, lead pollution.

Ludwig van Beethoven was a well-known composer of the late Classical period. The symphony contains many Classical features found in the works of his predecessors Haydn and Mozart, but Beethoven ...