The Enlightenment - Culture/ monarchs

Philosophes

________ tried to persuade monarchs to accept Enlightenment ideas.

Handel

________: Popular composer in England, wrote pieces for King George I, joyous music.

Mozart

________: Austrian music prodigy, his operas show how the world had "hypocrisy and lies ..

Rococo style

________ is light and elegant.

Bach

Organist, great composer, German Lutheran

Enlightened despots

"Absolute rulers who used their power to bring about political and social change

Frederick the Great

King of Prussia 1740 to 1786

Catherine the Great

empress of Russia

Joseph II

Of Austria - very interested in the enlightenment

Voltaire and Diderot

Catherine the Great talked to and got ideas from _________.