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Period: 1551 to
Guilo Caccini
One of the founders of opera
Le Nuove Musiche
4 stage works
more than 75 songs or arias -
Period: 1560 to
Jacopo Peri
One of the founders of opera
claimed to be the first with Dafne
contributed to monody and recitative style -
Period: 1563 to
John Dowland
English or Irish
Lutenist who was the leading composer for lute
revived by sting -
Period: 1564 to
William Shakespeare
English playwright and poet -
Period: 1570 to
Florentine Camerata
In the beginning of 1570s, a group of intellectuals that met to discuss the art
Caccini, Peri, Girolamo Mei, Vincenzo Galilei -
Period: to
Girolamo Frescobaldi
First modern keyboard virtuoso
most influential composer for the keyboard of the early baroque -
Genre: Cantata
Italian vocal work for soloist and basso continuo -
Genre: Mass
could include arias, recitatives, and choruses
included orchestral ensemble and basso continuo -
Form/Genre: Fugue
highly developed type of imitative counterpoint
form and genre -
Genre: Basso Continuo
"continuous bass" Bassline with figures indicating harmonies
improvized -
Form: Concerto
a diverse ensemble of voices or instruments
Grand concertos were large scale works
Sacred concertos were for sacred texts -
Period: to
The Early Baroque Period
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Period: to
Giacomo Carissimi
Leading composer for roman cantatas and oratorios
teacher of Charpentier -
Period: to
Barbara Strozzi
Virtuoso singer and most prolific composer of cantatas in the 17th century
the adopted daughter of Guilio Strozzi the poet -
Period: to
Jean Baptiste Lully
Establisher of french opera and ballet -
Period: to
Dieterich Buxtehunde
German organist and composer
most notable composer before bach
respected by bach -
Period: to
Marc Antoine Charpentier
Composer of french operas
equal to Lully
and extremely prolific -
Period: to
The Middle Baroque Period
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Period: to
Arcangelo Corelli
Most important Italian composer of sonatas and concertos
most influential violinist of the baroque -
Period: to
Johann Pachelbel
German composer and organist
a leading composer of his time -
Period: to
Henry Purcell
Most important English composer in the 17th century -
Period: to
Alessandro Scarlatti
Most important Italian Composer
teacher in naples
his death ended baroque opera -
Period: to
Francois Couperin
One of the most important french composers
sacred and secular vocal works -
Period: to
Antonio Vivaldi
Italian composer
laid the foundation of late baroque instrumental music
pioneer of the orchestra
forgotten by his contemporaries by his death
425 concerti grossi
350 solo concerti
45 operas -
Period: to
George Phillip Telemann
The most prolific german composer of his day
more popular than Bach in the baroque era -
Period: to
J S Bach
Considered the baroque master
master of counterpoint -
Period: to
Georg Friedrich Handel
german musician
lived in England
the inventor of English oratorio
respected by Beethoven -
Period: to
The Late Baroque Period
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Period: to
Giovanni Battista Pergolesi
Galant Neapolitan composer
died young and achievements were romanticized after his death
La serva padrona sparked a war of the bouffons in Paris in 1752