In the Baroque era, organ literature was also influenced by the instrumental music which was evolving rapidly alongside it. Venetian composers preferred to write for the harpsichord or the pianoforte. And when they did write for the organ, the style and formal idiom of their works were better suited to the harpsichord and its possibilities. While German composers were developing the “empfindsamer Styl”, Italian musicians indulged in a sober compositional style characterized by refined elegance. The galant Venetian style is encountered in the sonatas of Galuppi and Pescetti. In the second half of the 18th century, Venetian composers began assimilating the new forms of the classical sonata and the symphony.