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Period: 1551 to
Guilio Caccini
One of the founders of the opera; gave a description of the new singing style in his book of "songs" of 1602, Le nuove musiche; Italian composer, singer, teacher, and instrumentalist -
Period: 1557 to
Giovanni Gabrieli
Italian composer and organist; noted for his use of instruments in his sacred music; nephew of Andrea -
Period: 1561 to
Jacopo Peri
One of the founders of opera; claimed to be the first in 1597 with his Dafne; significant contribution to monody and the recitative style -
Period: 1563 to
John Dowland
English, possibly Irish; lutenist and the leading composer of lute music; Catholic; served in the court of Denmark; late in life appointed in London as one of the King's lutenists; In 2006 Sting (pop star) recorded Dowland's music creating a revival of his songs -
Period: 1564 to
William Shakespeare
English playwright and poet; he has been an important force in the field of music from his day to ours -
Period: 1567 to
Claudio Monteverdi
The most important composer of the early Baroque; one of the inventors of the new seconda practica (second practice-or modern style) -
Period: 1570 to
Florentina Camerata
Beginning in the 1570s, a group of intellectuals that met to discuss the arts-members of the included Caccini, Peri, Gerolamo Mei, Vincenzo Galilei -
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Orlando Gibbons
English; composer if Anglican Church anthems; keyboardist; a leading composer in 17th-century England -
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Girolamo Frescobaldi
First modern keyboard virtuoso and composer; he was the most influential keyboard composer of the early Baroque; he was the first European composer to focus on instrumental music -
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Heinrich Shutz
Most important German composer of the Middle Baroque; studied in Venice; reportedly composed the first German opera, which we lost -
Genres of The Baroque Era II
Sacred concerto, Sarabande, Serenata, Sinfonia, Sonata, Sonata da camera, Sonata da chiesa (sonata for the church), Suite, Toccata, Tragedie lyrique -
Genres of The Baroque Era
Allemande, Anthem, Aria, Ballad Opera, Ballet, Bouree, Cantata, Canzona, Chaconne, Choral Fugue, Choarle, Chorale prelude (organ chorale), Concerto (grosso, Solo, Ripieno), Courante, Fantasia, French Ouverture, Fugue, Gigue (English, jig), Grand Concerto, Hymn, Incidental music, Intermezzo, Landler, Masque, Mass, Minuet, Motet, Opera, Organ Chorale, Oratorio, Ordre, Organ prelude, Overture, Partita, Passacaglia, Passion, Prelude, Quodlibet, Recitative (Secco, accompagnato), Ricercar (Ricercare) -
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The Early Baroque
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The Ascension Louis XIII to the French Throne
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The Thirty Years War
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Barbara Strozzi
Virtuoso singer and most prolific composer of cantatas in the 17th century; adopted daughter of poet, Guilio Strozzi -
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Giovanni Legrenzi
Italian composer and organist; influential in the middle Baroque; used many (up to 90) short arias in his operas -
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Jean- Baptiste Lully
Establisher of French opera and ballet; dancer and violinist; Italianist by birth. but claimed by France -
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Dietirch Buxtehude
German organist and composer; most important organ composer before J.S. Bach; respected by Bach -
Death of Galileo Galilei
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Marc-Antoine Charpentier
Composer of French opera; pupil of Carissimi; equal to Lully and extremely prolific -
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John Blow
English composer of odes; teacher of Purcell; organist -
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The Middle Baroque
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Arcangelo Corelli
Most important Italian composer sonatas and concertos; also the most influential violinist of the Baroque -
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Johann Pachelbel
German composer and organist; a leading composer of his time -
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Giuseppe Torelli
Contributed the most to the development of the concerto around 1700; wrote for trumpet and strings; virtuoso violinist -
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Henry Purcell
Most important English composer in the 17th century -
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Alessandro Scarlatti
Important Italian composer; teacher in Naples; his death ends the Baroque opera; teacher of many gallant composers to come -
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Francois Couperin
French composer. keyboardist; one of the most important French composers -
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Antonio Vivaldi
Italian Composer; he laid the foundations for late Baroque instrumental music; teacher; pioneer of orchestral music; but, virtually forgotten by his contemporaries at his death -
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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 -
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Jean-Philippe Rameau
French composer and theorist; known first as theorist -
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Considered the Baroque master; wrote no operas; master of the 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 musical; lived in England, inventor of the English oratorio; Beethoven respected him above all others -
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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 -
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The Late Baroque
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Giovanni Battista Pergolesi
Gallant 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