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Baroque (1600-1750) Music Grids
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Early Baroque (1600-1630)
(Early Baroque CultureGrid)
Britain -- France -- Germany/Austria -- Italy
Middle Baroque (1630-1670)
(Middle Baroque CultureGrid)
Britain -- France -- Germany/Austria -- Italy
Mature Baroque (1670-1710)
(Mature Baroque CultureGrid)
Britain -- France -- Germany/Austria -- Italy
Late Baroque (1710-1750)
(Late Baroque CultureGrid)
Britain -- France -- Germany/Austria -- Italy
(WWW links from Baroque Music Essay profiles shown for Early
Baroque composers)
Early Baroque (1600-1630) Music
Britain (1600-1630)
- Thomas Campion 1567-1620 -- English poet, literary theorist, composer
and physician best known for the lyrics and music in his four Bookes
of Ayres (1601-1617).
- Henry Lawes 1596-1662 -- English composer best known
for his masques; brother of William Lawes.
- William Lawes 1602-1645 -- English composer and
musician in ordinary to Charles I known for his vocal music as numerous
instrumental works for consorts, especially viol consorts; brother of Henry
Lawes.
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France (1600-1630)
Germany/Austria (1600-1630)
- Heinrich Schutz 1585-1672
- (WWW links from Baroque Music Essay Schutz profile)
- Michael Praetorius 1571-1621
- (WWW links from Baroque Music Essay Praetorius profile)
- Johann Schein 1586-1630
- (WWW links from Baroque Music Essay Schein profile)
- Samuel Scheidt 1587-1654
- (WWW links from Baroque Music Essay Scheidt profile)
- Paul Peuerl c.1570-c.1627 -- Austrian composer generally regarded as
the inventor of the 4-movement German variation suite for strings.
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Italy (1600-1630)
- Claudio Monteverdi 1567-1643
- also important in the history of late Renaissance music.
- (WWW links from Baroque Music Essay Monteverdi profile)
- Giulio Caccini c.1550-1618
- (WWW links from Baroque Music Essay Caccini profile)
- Jacopo Peri 1561-1633
- (WWW links from Baroque Music Essay Peri profile)
- Emilio del Cavalieri c.1550-1602
- (WWW links from Baroque Music Essay Cavalieri profile)
- Girolamo Frescobaldi 1583-1643
- (WWW links from Baroque Music Essay Frescobaldi profile)
- Salomone Rossi 1570-c.1630
- Stefano Landi c.1590-1639 -- Italian composer and singer known for
his cantatas and operas.
- Alessandro Grandi 1577-1630 -- Italian composer and singer best known
for his cantatas, madrigals and motets.
- Giovanni Trabaci c.1575-1647 -- Italian composer and organist best
known for his sacred music, i.e., Masses, motets and psalm; Trabaci also
wrote madrigals and instrumental ricercari and canzoni.
- Lodovico Grossi da Viadana 1560-1627 -- Italian composer and choirmaster
at Mantua Cathedral known for his numerous Masses, motets, psalms, Magnificats
and Lamentations; Viadana also wrote sacred concerti in the style of Banchieri.
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Middle Baroque (1630-1670) Music
Britain (1630-1670)
- Matthew Locke c.1630-1677 -- English composer in ordinary to Charles
II (after 1660) best known for his instrumental suites, many of them
with a festive, opulent sound so loved by the English.
- Pelham Humfrey 1647-1674 -- English composer who served the court of
Charles II as Gentleman of the Chapel Royal and Master of the Children
(Henry Purcell was one of the children!); Humfrey is known for his
Anglican anthems, many of them large works (almost like cantatas), many
secular songs and incidental music to plays.
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France (1630-1670)
- Jacques Champion Chambonnieres c.1605-1672
- (WWW links from Baroque Music Essay Chambonnieres profile)
- Louis Couperin c.1626-1661
- (WWW links from Baroque Music Essay L. Couperin profile)
- Robert Cambert c.1628-1677 -- French composer and pupil of Chambonnieres
whose La Pastorale (1659) was the first French opera (preceding
Lully); the ever-jealous Lully forced Cambert to move to London,
where he died as Master of the King's Music to Charles II.
- Denis Gaultier 1603-1672-- French composer, lutenist
and cousin of Ennemond Gaultier who practiced his art in the salons
of Paris.
- Henri Dumont 1610-1684 -- French composer who served the court as choirmaster
and maitre de la musique; Dumont wrote mostly sacred music.
- (Middle Baroque CultureGrid)
Germany/Austria (1630-1670)
- Johann Froberger 1616-1667
- (WWW links from Baroque Music Essay Froberger profile)
- Johann Rudolf Ahle 1625-1673 -- German composer and organist who created
the modern cantata with chorus -- the chamber (solo, duet) cantata had
been the rule, especially in Italy; Ahle added the chorus to the cantata
just as Carissimi added the chorus to the oratorio; most of Ahle's
cantatas were based on Lutheran chorales.
- Heinrich Scheidemann c.1596-1663-- German composer, organist and pupil
of Sweelinck known for his many works for organ and harpsichord.
- Johann Cruger 1598-1662 -- German composer of Lutheran church music
best known for his fine chorales, many of them still in Protestant hymnals.
- Andreas Hammerschmidt 1612-1675 -- Bohemian-born composer of Lutheran
church music
- Franz Tunder 1614-1667 -- German composer, organist and father-in-law
of Dietrich Buxtehude best known for his organ compositions based
on Lutheran chorales.
- Esajas Reusner 1636-1679 -- German composer and lutenist for the Elector
of Brandenburg in Berlin, known for his accomplished suites and chorale
settings for the lute.
- (Middle Baroque CultureGrid)
Italy (1630-1670)
- Giacomo Carissimi 1605-1674
- (WWW links from Baroque Music Essay Carissimi profile)
- Pier Francesco Cavalli 1602-1676
- (WWW links from Baroque Music Essay Cavalli profile)
- Marc' Antonio Cesti 1623-1669
- (WWW links from Baroque Music Essay Cesti profile)
- Biagio Marini 1597-1665 -- Italian composer, violinist and pupil of
Monteverdi best known for his Affetti musicali (1617), containing
the earliest Italian solo violin sonata.
- Luigi Rossi 1598-1653 -- Italian composer whose Orfeo (1647)
was the first Italian opera written for production in Paris; in addition
to his operas, Rossi also wrote oratorios and over 100 cantatas.
- Tarquinio Merula c.1600-c.1660 -- Italian composer and choirmaster
of the Cathedral in Cremona best known for his many instrumental canzoni.
- Orazio Benevoli 1605-1672 -- French-born composer [he Italianized his
name] who served as choirmaster to the Habsburg court in Vienna
and the Vatican in Rome; large-scale, festive polychoral Masses and motets
were Benevoli's forte; his huge Festival Mass for two a8 choruses
and huge orchestra was commissioned for the consecration of Salzburg Cathedral.
- Giovanni Legrenzi 1626-1690 -- Italian composer
and director of music at St. Mark's in Venice; Legrenzi is one of
the most important composers of chamber music (especially trio sonatas)
before Corelli; he also wrote 18 operas with important orchestral
parts (quite unusual for the time).
- (Middle Baroque CultureGrid)
Mature Baroque (1670-1710) Music
Britain (1670-1710)
- Henry Purcell c.1659-1695
- (WWW links from Baroque Music Essay Purcell profile)
- John Blow c.1648-1708
- (WWW links from Baroque Music Essay Blow profile)
- William Croft 1678-1727 -- English composer who served the Chapel Royal
and Westminster Abbey (where he's buried); though Croft left mostly
church music, he also wrote a fair number of instrumental works, e.g.,
overtures, chamber music, etc.
- (Mature Baroque CultureGrid)
France (1670-1710)
- Jean-Baptiste Lully 1632-1687
- (WWW links from Baroque Music Essay Lully profile)
- Marc-Antoine Charpentier c.1636-1704
- (WWW links from Baroque Music Essay Charpentier profile)
- Jean-Henri d'Anglebert 1628-1691 -- French composer known for his keyboard
music who served as clavecinist to Louis XIV.
- Nicolas-Antoine Lebegue 1631-1702 -- French composer and court organist
to Louis XIV best known for his organ and harpsichord music.
- Marin Marais 1656-1728 -- French composer, pupil of Lully and
virtuoso on the viola da gamba a known for his impressively scored operas
and chamber music.
- Michel-Richard Delalande 1657-1726 -- French composer and organist
who served the court of Louis XIV; Delalande is best known for his
ballets and keyboard music.
- Andre Raison 1687-1719 -- French composer and organist known for his
organ works.
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Germany/Austria (1670-1710)
- Dietrich Buxtehude c.1637-1707
- (WWW links from Baroque Music Essay Buxtehude profile)
- Johann Kuhnau 1660-1722
- (WWW links from Baroque Music Essay Kuhnau profile)
- Heinrich von Biber 1644-1704
- (WWW links from Baroque Music Essay Biber profile)
- Johann Pachelbel 1653-1706
- (WWW links from Baroque Music Essay Pachelbel profile)
- Reinhard Keiser 1674-1739 -- German opera composer and managing director
of the opera in Hamburg, the site of the best operatic stage in Germany;
the prolific Keiser, whose librettos were in German (and often on popular
or realistic subjects), wrote over 100 operas, Singspiele (operas with
spoken dialogue) and intermezzos.
- Johann Fux 1660-1741 -- Austrian composer and theorist who served the
imperial court in Vienna and is best known for his treatise on counterpoint,
Gradus ad Parnassum (Steps to Parnassus, 1725); Haydn,
Mozart and countless other musicians have studied the work.
- Jan Reinken 1623-1722 -- Alsatian composer and organist known for his
organ music and chamber works.
- Johann Kerll 1627-1693 -- German composer, organist
and court Kapellmeister in Munich known for his organ and harpsichord works
and his operas to Italian librettos.
- Johann Philipp Krieger 1649-1725 -- Versatile German composer, organist
and court musician at Kassel, Halle and Weissenfels; Krieger wrote operas,
chamber music, overtures, organ and harpsichord compositions.
- Georg Muffat 1653-1704 -- Austrian composer and organist who served
cathedrals in Salzburg and Passau and is best known for his instrumental
music, e.g., concerti grossi, organ works, solo sonatas for various instruments,
orchestral suites, etc.
- Philipp Erlebach 1657-1714 -- German composer known for his orchestral
suites, cantatas, secular songs and organ works.
- Friedrich Zachau 1663-1712 -- German composer, organist, teacher of
Handel (at Halle) known for his many organ works.
- Johann David Heinichen 1683-1729 -- German composer, theorist and director
of the Italian opera company at Dresden best known for his operas; he prolific
Heinichen also left us 63 cantatas, 16 Masses, 2 oratorios, 30 concerti
and a great deal of chamber music.
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Italy (1670-1710)
- Arcangelo Corelli 1653-1713
- (WWW links from Baroque Music Essay Corelli profile)
- Giuseppi Torelli 1658-1709
- (WWW links from Baroque Music Essay Torelli profile)
- Alessandro Scarlatti 1660-1725
- (WWW links from Baroque Music Essay A. Scarlatti profile)
- Alessandro Stradella 1644-1682
- (WWW links from Baroque Music Essay Stradella profile)
- Giovanni Battista Vitali 1632-1692 -- Italian composer and choirmaster
at the ducal court of Modena known for his chamber music.
- Abbate Steffani 1654-1728 -- Italian composer and pupil of Kerll
who served the Electoral Court in Munich and as choirmaster at Hanover;
in addition to his sacred and instrumental compositions, Steffani also
wrote several operas [who didn't in those days?].
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Late Baroque (1710-1750) Music
Britain (1710-1750)
- George Frideric Handel 1685-1759 -- born in Germany.
- (WWW links from Baroque Music Essay Handel profile)
- John Pepusch 1667-1752 -- German-born composer best
known for arranging music of the enormously popular ballad opera, The
Beggar's Opera (1728).
- Maurice Greene 1695-1755 -- English composer and organist of St.
Paul's Cathedral; in 1735 Greene became Master of the King's Band of
Music; Greene is best known for his 2 oratorios, Jephtha (1737)
and The Force of Truth (1744), and his sacred music.
- (Late Baroque CultureGrid)
France (1710-1750)
- Francois Couperin 1668-1733
- (WWW links from Baroque Music Essay F. Couperin profile)
- Jean Philippe Rameau 1683-1764
- (WWW links from Baroque Music Essay Rameau profile)
- Andre Campra 1660-1744 -- French opera composer who was eclipsed by
Rameau.
- Louis Marchand 1669-1732 -- French composer and organist of the Chapel
Royal in Paris known for his organ and harpsichord works.
- Louis Clerambault 1676-1748 -- French composer and organist best known
in his day for his stage works written for the French court.
- Jean-Baptiste Loeillet 1680-1730 -- French composer, harpsichordist
and virtuoso flutist who popularized the German transverse flute in England.
- Jean Mouret 1682-1738 -- French composer of stage, vocal and chamber
music; his Rondeau was made famous as the theme song of the Public
Television Network's Masterpiece Theater.
- Jean Dandrieu 1682-1738 -- French composer, harpsichord virtuoso and
organist best known for his clavecin works.
- Jacques Aubert 1689-1753 -- French composer and violinist who is credited
with being the first Frenchman to write concertos.
- Joseph Bodin de Boismortier 1689-1755 -- prolific French composer best
known for his chamber music, especially for recorders and/or flutes.
- Louis-Claude Daquin 1694-1772 -- French composer and organist generally
regarded as the finest organist of his generation; Daquin if best known
today for his charming noels.
- Jean Marie Leclair 1697-1764 -- French composer
and violinist best known for his chamber music; Leclair was stabbed to
death (perhaps by his estranged wife).
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Germany/Austria (1710-1750)
- Johann Sebastian Bach 1685-1750
- (WWW links from Baroque Music Essay J.S. Bach profile)
- Georg Telemann 1681-1767
- (WWW links from Baroque Music Essay Telemann profile)
- Johann Mattheson 1681-1764 -- German composer, scholar and lexicographer
best known for his Grundlage einer Ehren-Pforte (1740),
a biographical dictionary, Das neu-eroffnete Orchester (The Newly
Inaugurated Orchestra, 1713) and Der vollkommene Capellmeister
(The Consummate Choirmaster, 1739); Mattheson's Critica musica,
begun in 1722, was the first German music periodical.
- Johann Fischer c.1665-1746 -- German composer best known for his organ
and harpsichord works.
- Christoph Graupner 1683-1760 -- prolific German composer and choirmaster
at Darmstadt; Graupner left some 44 concerti, 80 overtures, c.116 symphonies,
volumes of chamber music, over 1000 sacred works and 6 operas.
- WWW -- Christoph Graupner
- Johann Gottfried Walther 1684-1748 -- German composer, organist, theorist,
lexicographer and cousin of J.S. Bach best known today for his monumental
dictionary of music and musicians, Musicalisches Lexicon (1732).
- Sylvius Leopold Weiss 1686-1750 -- German composer and lutenist regarded
as one of the greatest lute players of his time; in 1728 Weiss published
a treatise on the lute.
- Johann Eberlin 1702-1762 -- German composer, organist and choirmaster
in Salzburg Cathedral best known for his oratorios, Masses, psalms and
organ works.
- (Late Baroque CultureGrid)
Italy (1710-1750)
- Antonio Vivaldi 1678-1741
- (WWW links from Baroque Music Essay Vivaldi profile)
- Domenico Scarlatti 1685-1757
- (WWW links from Baroque Music Essay Scarlatti profile)
- Giovanni Battista Pergolesi 1710-1736
- (WWW links from Baroque Music Essay Pergolesi profile)
- Tomaso Albinoni 1671-1750
- (WWW links from Baroque Music Essay Albinoni profile)
- Antonio Lotti c.1667-1740 -- Italian composer,
organist, pupil of Legrenzi and maestro di cappella at St. Mark's
in Venice best known for his church music; Lotti's splendid a8 Crucifixus
is a "must hear" work (especially as recorded by the King's College,
Cambridge choir).
- Antonio Caldara 1670-1736 -- prolific Italian composer, cellist and
pupil of Legrenzi; Caldara wrote 87 operas, 32 oratorios, and a great deal
of sacred music, including 30 Masses.
- Francesco Manfredini c.1680-1748 -- Italian composer and violinist
best known for his chamber music for strings.
- Francesco Durante 1684-1755 -- Italian church composer and distinguished
teacher who served in Naples.
- Benedetto Marcello 1686-1739 -- Italian vocal and instrumental composer
whose best works are the settings of Giustiniani's paraphrases of the first
50 Psalms.
- Nicola Porpora 1686-1768 -- Italian opera composer and singing teacher
(the famous castrato Farinelli was one of his pupils); in addition to his
operas (c.44), Porpora wrote 11 oratorios, several Masses and motets and
some chamber music.
- Leonardo Vinci 1690-1730 -- Italian composer who served the Royal Chapel
in Naples and is best known for his operas (c.40), most of them written
for Naples.
- Leonardo Leo 1694-1744 -- Italian composer and distinguished teacher
best known for his operas (c.60), most of them written for Naples.
- Domenico Alberti 1710-c.1740 -- Italian composer
and pupil of Lotti best known for the repeated arpeggiation of triadic
left hand accompaniments in his keyboard sonatas, i.e., the so-called "Alberti
bass".
- (Late Baroque CultureGrid)
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