Baroque Era Timeline (1600-1730's)

de'Cavalieri

Period: 1550 to 1602

Italian; b. ca. 1550

Caccini

Period: 1551 to 1618

Italian

Gabrieli

Period: 1557 to 1612

Italian; b. ca. 1557

Viadana

Period: 1560 to 1637

Italian; b. ca. 1560

Praetorius

Period: 1560 to 1629

German

Peri

Period: 1561 to 1633

Italian

Bull

Period: 1562 to 1628

English; b. ca. 1562

Dowland

Period: 1563 to 1626

English; b. ca. 1563

Hassler

Period: 1564 to 1612

German

Shakespeare

Period: 1564 to 1616

English

Monteverdi

Period: 1567 to 1643

Italian

Campion

Period: 1567 to 1620

English

Banchieri

Period: 1568 to 1634

Italian

Rossi

Period: 1570 to 1630

Italian; b. ca. 1630

Agazzari

Period: 1580 to 1642

Italian; b. ca. 1580

Gagliano

Period: 1582 to 1643

Italian

d'India

Period: 1582 to 1629

Italian; b. ca. 1582

Gibbons

Period: 1583 to 1625

English

Frescobaldi

Period: 1583 to 1643

Italian

Schütz

Period: 1585 to 1672

German

Invention of Opera

1598

Invention of the Baroque Guitar

1600

Early Baroque

Period: 1600 to 1650

Genres: opera, ballet, mass, magnificent, vesper, motet, madrigal, cantata, oratorio
Stylistic Traits: homophony & polyphony, free rhythms, beginning of tonality, poetic form, binary form, use of markings, contrast, basso continuo

Cavalli

Period: 1602 to 1676

Italian

Carissmi

Period: 1605 to 1674

Italian

Du Mont

Period: 1610 to 1684

Born in the Netherlands; Schooled in France; b. ca. 1610

Strozzi

Period: 1619 to 1677

Italian

Invention of the Earliest Human-Powered Submarine

1620

Locke

Period: 1621 to 1677

English; b. ca. 1621

Bontempi

Period: 1625 to 1705

Italian; b. ca. 1625

Legrenzi

Period: 1626 to 1690

Italian

Kerll

Period: 1627 to 1693

German

Baltzar

Period: 1631 to 1663

German; b. ca. 1631

Lully

Period: 1632 to 1687

Italian

J.C. Bach

Period: 1642 to 1703

German

Charpentier

Period: 1643 to 1704

French

End of the Ming Dynasty

1644

Blow

Period: 1648 to 1708

English; b. 1648/49

Middle Baroque

Period: 1650 to 1700

Genres: opera, ballet, cantata, concerto, sonata, trio
Stylistic Traits: homophony & polyphony, basso continuo, recitative melodies, tonal system, ritornellos, strings dominated

Corelli

Period: 1653 to 1713

Italian

Pachelbel

Period: 1653 to 1706

German

Steffani

Period: 1654 to 1728

Italian

Torelli

Period: 1658 to 1709

Italian

Purcell

Period: 1659 to 1695

English

Invention of the Cello

1660

Scarlatti

Period: 1660 to 1725

Italian

Kuhnau

Period: 1660 to 1722

German

Ariosti

Period: 1666 to 1729

Italian

Invention of the First Newtonian Reflecting Telescope

1668

Couperin

Period: 1668 to 1733

French

Caldara

Period: 1670 to 1736

Italian; b. ca. 1670

Albinoni

Period: 1671 to 1750

Italian; d. 1750/51

Keiser

Period: 1674 to 1739

German

Vivaldi

Period: 1678 to 1741

Venetian

Telemann

Period: 1681 to 1767

German

Rameau

Period: 1683 to 1764

French

Scarlatti

Period: 1685 to 1757

Italian

Porpora

Period: 1686 to 1768

Italian

The Glorious Revolution

Jan 1, 1688

Tartini

Period: 1692 to 1770

Italian

Vinci

Period: 1696 to 1730

Italian; b. ca. 1696

Quantz

Period: 1697 to 1773

German

Invention of the Piano

1698

Late Baroque

Period: 1700 to 1730

Genres: opera, cantata, oratorio, concerto, sonata
Stylistic Traits: polyphony & homophony, basso continuo, fortspinnung, steady tempo, 16th notes, established diatonic system, ritornello, fuges, da capo aria, binary form, messa di voce

Martini

Period: 1706 to 1784

Italian

The UK is formed

1707

Pergolesi

Period: 1710 to 1736

Italian

Invention of the Contrabassoon

1714