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The following is an incomplete list of classical music festivals –music festivals focused onclassical music. Classical music isart music produced or rooted in the traditions ofWestern music (bothliturgical andsecular), and has long been played at festival-like settings. It encompasses a broad span of time from roughly the 11th century to the present day.^[1] The major time divisions of classical music are as follows: theearly music period, which includes theMedieval (500–1400) and theRenaissance (1400–1600) era, played atearly music festivals; thecommon practice period, which includes theBaroque (1600–1750),Classical (1750–1830), andRomantic eras (1804–1910), which includedopera festivals andchoral festivals; and the20th century (1901–2000) which includes themodern (1890–1930) that overlaps from the late 19th-century, thehigh modern (mid 20th-century), andcontemporary classical music festivals orpostmodern (1975–2000) eras, the last of which overlaps into the 21st-century. The term "classical music" did not appear until the early 19th century, in an attempt to distinctly canonize the period fromJohann Sebastian Bach toBeethoven as a golden age.^[2]

List	Category	Media
List of classical music festivals	Classical music festivals Classical music festivals by country	Classical music festivals Classical music festivals by country
List of music festivals	Music festivals	Music festivals
List of early music festivals	Early music festivals	Early music festivals
List of chamber music festivals	Chamber music festivals	Chamber music festivals
List of choral festivals	Choral festivals	Choral festivals
List of Indian classical music festivals		Indian classical music festivals
List of opera festivals	Opera festivals	Opera festivals
List of Bach festivals	Bach festivals	Bach festivals
List of Christian music festivals	Christian music festivals	Christian music festivals
	Contemporary classical festivals	Contemporary classical festivals
List of experimental music festivals	Experimental music festivals	Experimental music festivals
	Electroacoustic festivals	Electroacoustic festivals

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