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 | | In 1782–83, Mozart became closely acquainted with the work of JS Bach and Handel, as a result of the influence of Baron Gottfried van Swieten, who owned many manuscripts of works by the Baroque masters. |
 | | Some of his quartets from 1773 have fugal finales, probably influenced by Haydn, who had just published his opus 20 set; the influence of the Sturm und Drang period in German literature, with its brief foreshadowing of the Romantic era to come, is evident in some of the music of both composers of the time. |
 | | In Mozarts's hands sonata form transformed from the binary models of the baroque into the fully mature form of his later works, with a multiple-theme exposition, extended, chromatic and contrapuntal development, recapitulation of all themes in the tonic key, and coda. |
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