The Baroque era dates roughly from 1600 to 1750. Some examples of Baroque composers, performers: Monteverdi, Bach, Purcell, Handel, and Corelli. The<span> Classical era dates roughly from the mid-1700s to the mid-1800s. Some Classical composers: Mozart, Haydn, and Beethoven. </span>Baroque music was complex, highly tonal, and often polyphonic. It was trendy to perform in an energetic and emotionally charged style.<span>The Romantic music that followed the Classical period was also emotional often nationalistic, historical, autobiographical, or explicitly story driven.
