Prokofiev's Op. 25 is not intended to have been a period-accurate pastiche. The "classical" title is meant to indicate a tongue-in-cheek theme, as in a costume

Prokofiev's Op. 25 is not intended to have been a period-accurate pastiche. The "classical" title is meant to indicate a tongue-in-cheek theme, as in a costume party. And to answer the OP question, the social context in which compositions in the past were written no longer exists. From the vantage point of the present, a composition which is restricted to the vocabulary and the techniques of a single past era seems to be arbitrarily excluding possibilities which have since become known to all of us.