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Period: 1551 to
Giulio Caccini (E)
Considered one of the founders of opera -
Period: 1557 to
Giovanni Gabrieli (E)
Italian composer and organist known for his use of instruments in sacred music. -
Period: 1561 to
Jacopo Peri (E)
One of the founders of opera -
Period: 1563 to
John Dowland (E)
lutenist and leading composer of lute music -
Period: 1564 to
William Shakespeare (E)
English playwright and poet -
Period: 1567 to
Claudio Monteverdi (E)
Most important composer of early Baroque, one of the inventors of seconda practica (modern style) -
Period: 1570 to
Florentine Camerata (E)
Starting in 1570's, a group of intellectuals met to discuss the arts and included Caccini, Peri, Girolamo Mei, Vincenzo Galilei -
Period: to
Orlando Gibbons (E)
English composer of Anglican Church anthems and a leading composer for 17th century England -
Period: to
Girolamo Frescobaldi (E)
First modern keyboard virtuoso and composer and was most influential keyboard composer of early Baroque -
Period: to
Heinrich Schutz (M)
Most important German composer of Middle Baroque -
Period: to
Francesca Caccini (E)
Soprano and the first woman to compose opera. The most successful Italian female composer -
Period: to
Early Baroque
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Period: to
Giacomo Carissimi (E)
Leading composer of Roman cantatas and oratorios -
Founding of Jamestown
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Period: to
Barbara Strozzi (M)
Composed madrigals, cantatas, and arias, and mother was Julio Strozzi's servants. Studied under some of the same teacher's that male composers of this time did -
Period: to
Giovanni Legrenzi (M)
Italian composer and organist who used many short arias in his operas -
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Jean- Baptiste Lully (M)
Establisher of French opera and ballet; was a dancer and violinist who is Italian by birth but claimed by France -
Period: to
Dieterich Buxtehude
Italian composer -
Period: to
Marc- Antoine Charpentier (M)
Composer of French opera -
Period: to
Middle Baroque
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Period: to
Arcangelo Corelli (M)
Most important Italian composer of sonatas and concertos -
Period: to
Giuseppe Torelli (M)
Contributed to most of the development of concerto around 1700 -
Period: to
Henry Purcell (M)
Most important English composer in the 17th century -
Period: to
Alessandro Scarlatti (L)
Important Italian composer who was a teacher in Naples -
Isaac Newton experiments with gravity
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Period: to
Francois Couperin (L)
important French composer and keyboardist -
Period: to
Antonio Vivaldi (L)
Italian composer who laid the foundation for late Baroque instrumental music -
Period: to
Georg Phillip Telemann (L)
Most prolific composer of his day and was more popular than J. S. Bach during the Baroque -
Period: to
Jean- Philippe Rameau (L)
French composer and theorist -
Period: to
J. S. Bach (L)
Considered the Baroque master -
Period: to
Georg Friedrich Handel (L)
German musician and inventor of the English oratorio -
Period: to
Domenico Scarlatti (L)
Son of Alessandro and was a keyboard composer and virtuoso -
Period: to
Johann Joachim Quantz (L)
German composer -
Age of Enlightenment in Europe
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Period: to
Late Baroque
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Period: to
Giovanni Pergolesi (L)
Neapolitan composer who died young and his achievements were romanticized after his death