Mool mantar
The Mool Mantar (also spelled Mul Mantar) is the opening verse of the Guru Granth Sahib, the Sikh holy book. The verse is repeated many times throughout the book.
Mool Mantar Media
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, a representative composer of the Classical period, seated at a keyboard.
A modern string quartet. In the 2000s, string quartets from the Classical era are the core of the chamber music literature. From left to right: violin 1, violin 2, cello, viola
*Gluck, detail of a portrait by Joseph Duplessis, dated 1775 (Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna)
Muzio Clementi's Sonata in G minor, No. 3, Op. 50, "Didone abbandonata", adagio movement
Haydn portrait by Thomas Hardy, 1792
Mozart wrote a number of divertimentos, light instrumental pieces designed for entertainment. This is the 2nd movement of his Divertimento in E-flat major, K. 113.
The opening bars of the Commendatore's aria in Mozart's opera Don Giovanni. The orchestra starts with a dissonant diminished seventh chord (G# dim7 with a B in the bass) moving to a dominant seventh chord (A7 with a C# in the bass) before resolving to the tonic chord (D minor) at the singer's entrance.
Portrait of the Mozart Family, dated 1780–81
Portrait of Beethoven, 1820