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20 Cards in this Set
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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Musical genius of the classical period who died at the tender age of 35
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George Frederick Handel
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German composer who wrote his most famous piece, the Messiah, in England
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Franz Joseph Haydn
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Incredibly prolific composer with 104 symphonies to his credit
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Johann Sebastian Bach
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Director of music at the Church of Saint Thomas in Leipzig, where he composed his Saint Matthew's Passion
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Antoine Watteau
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Rococo painter who depicted French aristocratic life in a light, but somewhat sad vein
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Samuel Richardson
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Novelist and moralist best known for Pamela, the story of an earnest servant girl
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Clement XIV
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pope who reluctantly disbanded the jesuits
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Count Nikolaus von Zinzendorf
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Founder of the Moravian Brethren and an early Pietist
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Jacques-Louis David
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Neoclassical painter whose moral seriousness and patriotism is evident in Oath of the Horatii
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Balthasar Neumann
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Architect wo designed the Vierzehnhiligen
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Henry Fielding
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Novelist best known for his tales of moral decay and depravity
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Cesare Beccaria
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Social reformer who argued against the inhuman tortures applied to criminals
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Edward Gibbon
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historian who attributed the decline of the Roman Empire to the rise of Christianity
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Joseph II
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Austrian emperor who extended a form of religious toleration to his non-catholic subjects
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Romanticism
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An intellectual movement that emphasized sentiment over reason
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deism
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A belief in an impersonal, mechanistic God
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Rococo
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a primarily decorative art characterized by curving lines and delicate figures
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Philosophe
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french term for an enlightenment thinker
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Pietism
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form of protetant mysticism that emphasized the personal experience of God
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pogrom
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mob attacks against jews
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