First Viennese School
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The First Viennese School is a name sometimes given to a collection of classical music composers who wrote in the classical music era in the late eighteenth century in Vienna. These composers include Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Joseph Haydn, Ludwig van Beethoven, and Franz Schubert.
The term was created retrospectively, and purely as a result of the name 'Second Viennese School' having become attached to the group of composers connected with Arnold Schoenberg in the Vienna of the early twentieth century.
Attempts to extend the 'First Viennese School' so as to include such later figures as Anton Bruckner, Johannes Brahms, and Gustav Mahler are mischievous, and not supported by the critical and musicological literature.
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