The best known composers of that time were Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809), Wolfgang A. Mozart (1756-1791), and later Ludwig Beethoven (1770-1827).

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Franz Joseph Haydn is one of the representative figures of the Viennese Classicism Style. He made a great contribution to the final foundation of the Classicism Style.