The Neoclassical period emerged as a response to the birth of a new nation.

Pulcinella is often considered to be the first piece of Stravinsky's neoclassical period.

Thorvaldsen was an outstanding representative of the Neoclassical period in sculpture.

As already explained, the first two Neoclassical periods were almost completely devoted to the construction of secular buildings.

The building received subsequent extensions during the neoclassical period.

This aesthetic, through his publications, proved very popular and underwent a revival in the neoclassical period.

Its construction in 1839 was later seen to coincide with the end of Milan's Neoclassical period.

Oedipus rex was written towards the beginning of Stravinsky's neoclassical period.

The urban fabric was classified as being predominantly of the Neoclassical period "without special architectural features for which it could be distinguished".

Important cultural trends often informed music of this period, romantic, modernist, neoclassical, postmodernist or otherwise.