Well you sorted it out historically, I was refering to different kinds of it. There were operas in the Renaissance already and there are new ones still being composed. So "Orfeius" and "Nixon in China" are both operas, but there's some 5 ceturies in between them (they would still fall in different genre of "classical music", namely operas).
BTW - in which category would marches fall (or would they be a category of their own)? I mean you can't really say that people like John Phillim Sousa really composed classical music... but where would you put it?
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