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Period: 1551 to
Giulio Gaccini
4 stage works, more than 75 songs or arias, one of the founders of opera, gave a new singing style in his book of songs of 1602, Italian composer, Le nuove muisiche -
Period: 1557 to
Giovanni Gabrieli
90 motets, grand concertos, Italian composer and organist, nephew of Andrea, and is noted for his use of instruments in his sacred music -
Period: 1561 to
Jacopo Peri
20 stage works, 30 songs, one of the founders of Opera (claimed to be the first in 1597), contributed to monody and recitative styles. -
Period: 1563 to
John Dowland
3 books of songs, many pieces for Lute, English (maybe Irish?), the leading composer of lute music, appointed as the King's Lutist in London -
Period: 1564 to
William Shakespeare
English playwriter and poet, an important force in music -
Period: 1567 to
Claudio Monteverdi
Most important composer of the early Baroque, one of the inventors of the new second practice-or modern style, not all of the works survived. -
Period: 1570 to
Florentine Camerata
A group of intellectuals that met to discuss the arts: included Caccini, Peri, Girolamo Mei, Vincenzo Galilei (Began in the 1570s) -
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Orlando Gibbons
English, Composer of Anglican Church anthems, leading composer in the 17th century, sacred choral music -
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Girolamo Frescobaldi
First modern keyboard virtuoso and composer; highly influenced keyboard in Baroque, first European composer to focus on instrumental music. -
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Heinrich Schutz
Most important German composer of Middle Baroque, composed the first German opera (which is lost). Wrote Madrigal and hundreds of choral works -
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Giacomo Carissimi
A leading composer of Roman cantatas and oratorios, teacher of Charpentier,150+ cantatas -
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Barbara Strozzi
Virtuoso singer and prolific composer of cantatas in the 17th century, adopted daughter of a Poet (Guilio Strozzi) -
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Giovanni Legrenzi
Italian composer and organist, singer, author, historian and architect, he wrote the first history of music in Italian (Historia musica,1695) wrote 4 operas -
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Jean-Baptiste Lully
Establisher of French opera and Ballet, dancer and violinist, Italian by birth but claimed by France -
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Dieterich Buxtehude
German organist and composer, important organ composer BEFORE J.S Bach, respected Bach -
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Marc-Antoine Charpentier
Composer of French opera; pupil of Carissimi; equal to Lully and extremely prolific. 11 masses, Magnificats, motets, psalms, etc... -
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John Blow
English composer of Odes; Tacher of Purcell (an organist) over a 100 songs (duets and trios), instrumental anthems -
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Middle Baroque
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Arcangelo Corelli
Most important Italian composer of sonatas and concertos; also the most influential violinist of the Baroque Era -
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Johann Pachelbel
German composer and organist; a leading composer of his time.
Wrote: liturgical organ music, protestant church music -
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Giuseppe Torelli
Contributed the most to the development of the concerto around the 1700s. wrote for trumpet and strings; virtuoso violinist -
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Henry Purcell
Most important English composer in the 17th century.
wrote: 6 stage works, keyboard music, anthems -
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Francois Couperin
French composer, Keyboardist, one of the important french composers, wrote: 27 ordres (sets) of keyboard works -
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Antonio Vivaldi
Italian composer; he kaid the foundations for late Baroque instrumental music; teacher, pioneer of orchestral music but virtually forgotten by his contemporaries at his death. wrote: 425 concerti grossi, 350 solo concerti, 45 operas, etc... -
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Georg Philipp Telemann
The most prolific German composer of his day, more popular than J.S Bach during the Baroque; contributed significantly to concert life in Germany.
Wrote: Cantatas, motets, operas, quartets, and quintets theoretical publications -
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Jean-Philippe Rameau
French composer and theorist; known first as the theorist. Wrote: 30+ dramatic works, cantatas, arias, keyboard works, Theoretical publications -
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Johann Sebastian Bach
The Baroque Master; wrote no operas; master of counterpoint; he became an icon for future generations and is still one of the most revered composers today. -
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Georg Friedrich Handel
German musician; lived in England, inventor of the English oratorio; Beethoven respected him above all the others.
Wrote: Latin and English church music, duets and trios with basso contiuno, etc.. -
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Domenico Scarlatti
Son of Alessandro, Keyboard composer and virtuoso, served Portuguese and Spanish royal families; progressive style and personally aware of it. -
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Johann Joachim Quantz
German Composer; Flutist and flute teacher for Fredrick the Great in Berlin. Wrote: 204 sonatas, 300+ concertos, published treatise "playing the flute", 1752 -
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Late Baroque
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Giovanni Battista Pergolesi
Galant Neapolitan composer, he died young and his achievements were romanticized after his death; his intermezzo, "La serva padrona" sparked the war of the bouffons in Paris in 1752.