<P> The dates of the Classical period in Western music are generally accepted as being between about the year 1730 and the year 1820 . However , the term classical music is often used in a colloquial sense as a synonym for Western art music which describes a variety of Western musical styles from the Middle Ages to the present , and especially from the seventeenth century to the nineteenth . This article is about the specific period in most of the 18th century to the early 19th century , though overlapping with the Baroque and Romantic periods . </P>
when did the classical period of western music occur
between about the year 1730 and the year 1820