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Classical music
Montage of some great classical music composers . From left to right: Top row – Antonio Vivaldi , Johann Sebastian Bach , George Frideric Handel , Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , Ludwig van Beethoven ; second row – Gioachino Rossini , Felix Mendelssohn , Frédéric Chopin , Richard Wagner , Giuseppe Verdi ; third row – Johann Strauss II , Johannes Brahms , Georges Bizet , Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky , Antonín Dvořák ; bottom row – Edvard Grieg , Edward Elgar , Sergei Rachmaninoff , George Gershwin , Aram Khachaturian Classical music is the art music produced in, or rooted in, the traditions of Western liturgical and secular music , encompassing a broad period from roughly the 11th century to present times. [ 1 ] The central norms of this tradition became codified between 1550 and 1900, which is known as the common practice period .