Famous Neo-classical Metal Guitarists/Guitar Players
Neo-classical metal takes its name from a broad conception of classical music. In this it is a concept distinct from how neoclassicism is understood within the classical music tradition. Neoclassical music usually refers to the movement in musical modernism in which composers gained influence from the Classical period. This period roughly spans the years from 1750 to 1810 with the best known composers of strictly classical music including Mozart and Haydn and also Beethoven during the early part of his career before he laid the musical foundations of the romantic movement in music. The classical period was a time in which rigidly structured musical forms such as the sonata, symphony and string quartet were developed. Musical Neoclassicism developed roughly a century after the end of the classical period and peaked during the years in between the two World Wars. It was a reaction against late 19th and early 20th Century romanticism as embodied in the works of composers such as Richard Wagner and Gustav Mahler who had stretched both musical language and musical form to produce massive works where the limits of tonality were broken. Neoclassical composers include both Igor Stravinsky and Paul Hindemith who fused elements from the Classical period, such as a "common practice" harmony and strict adherence to form, with their own unique "advanced" harmonic vocabularies and rhythmic variety.
Stylistic Origins:
Speed metal
Progressive rock
Classical music
Guitarist(s):
Steve Vai
Alexi "Wildchild" Laiho
Chris Impelliteri
Jason Becker
Joe Stump
Katherine Thomas
Luca Turilli
Marty Friedman
Michael Angelo Batio
Muhammed Suicmez
Paul Gilbert
Tony MacAlpine
Victor Moore
Yngwie Johann Malmsteen
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