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Composers of the Baroque era, ordered by date of birth: More »
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Johann Sebastian Bach was a prolific German composer and organist whose sacred and secular works for choir, orchestra and solo instruments drew together the strands of the Baroque period and brought it to its ultimate maturity. Although he introduced no new forms, he enriched the prevailing German style with a robust contrapuntal technique, a control of harmonic and motivic organisation from the smallest to the largest scales, and the adaptation of rhythms and textures from abroad,... More »
Claudio Monteverdi
Claudio Monteverdi was an Italian composer, viol player, and singer. His work marks the transition from Renaissance to Baroque music. During his long life he produced works that can be classified in both genres, and he can be seen as a musical revolutionary. Monteverdi wrote the earliest opera which is still regularly staged, ''L'Orfeo''. More »
George Frideric Handel
George Frideric Handel was a German-born British Baroque composer who was a leading composer of concerti grossi, operas and oratorios. Born in Germany as Georg Friedrich Händel , he dwelt during most of his adult life in England, becoming a subject of the British crown on 22 January 1727. His most famous works are ''Messiah'', an oratorio set to texts from the King James Bible, ''Water Music'' and ''Music for the Royal Fireworks''. He deeply influenced many composers who came after him,... More »
Heinrich Schütz
Heinrich Schütz was a German composer and organist, generally regarded as the most important German composer before Johann Sebastian Bach and is often considered to be one of the most important composers of the 17th century along with Claudio Monteverdi. He wrote what is thought to be the first German opera, ''Dafne'', performed at Torgau in 1627; however, the music has since been lost. He is commemorated as a musician in the Calendar of Saints of the Lutheran Church on July 28 with Johann... More »
Arcangelo Corelli
Arcangelo Corelli was an influential Italian violinist and composer of Baroque music. More »
François Couperin
François Couperin was a French Baroque composer, organist and harpsichordist. François Couperin was known as "''Couperin le Grand''" to distinguish him from the other members of the musically talented Couperin family. More »
Jean-Baptiste Lully
Jean-Baptiste de Lully, originally Giovanni Battista di Lulli , was a French composer of Italian birth, who spent most of his life working in the court of Louis XIV of France. He became a French subject in 1661. More »
Johann Jakob Froberger
Johann Jakob Froberger was a German Baroque composer, keyboard virtuoso, and organist. He was very well known during his lifetime and modern scholars consider him to be one of the most important keyboard composers before Johann Sebastian Bach. More »
Girolamo Frescobaldi
Girolamo Frescobaldi was an Italian musician, one of the most important composers of keyboard music in the late Renaissance and early Baroque periods. There is no evidence that the Frescobaldi of Ferrara were related to the homonymous Florentine noble house. More »
Jean-Philippe Rameau
Jean-Philippe Rameau was one of the most important French composers and music theorists of the Baroque era. He replaced Jean-Baptiste Lully as the dominant composer of French opera, and was attacked by those who preferred Lully's style. More »
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