Professor Matthew Head gives us more information on 18th century music in our latest podcast. 

If you'd like to find out more, try this YouTube link to a piece of music by one of the composers mentioned: Marianna Martines (1744-1812), Harpsichord Sonata in A (c. 1765). Performed at https://youtu.be/LrOmJIwB-gE by Nicoleta Paraschivescu. Martines was a contemporary of Haydn and Mozart in Vienna and the first female composer admitted to the prestigious Philharmonic Academy of Bologna (1773).