Baroque Music History

  • Period: May 15, 1551 to

    Giulio Caccini

    Important composer of Monody
  • Period: May 15, 1554 to

    Giocanni Gabrielli

    Italian composer and organist
  • Period: May 15, 1561 to

    Jacopo Peri

    Italian composer of opera
  • Period: May 15, 1567 to

    Claudio Monteverdi

    Italian Composer
  • Period: to

    Girolamo Frescobaldi

    Italian composer of keyboard music
  • Period: to

    Heinrich Schutz

    German composer. Cori spezzati.
  • Period: to

    Francesca Caccini

    Daughter of Giulio Caccini, Composer for Duke of Florence.
  • "Vedro I mio sol - Caccini

  • "Tu se morta" - Claudio Monteverdi

  • Establishemnt of East India Company

  • Death of Queen Elizabeth I

  • Period: to

    Giacomo Carissimi

    Leading composer of Latin oratorios
  • Period: to

    Barbara Strozzi

    Italian Baroque Singer and Composer
  • Pilgrims arrive and found Plymouth Colony

  • Period: to

    Jean-Baptiste Lully

    Prolific french composer
  • Period: to

    Dieterich Buxtehude

    Danish-German Organist/Composer
  • "Saul, was verfolgst du mich" - Schutz

  • Period: to

    Archangelo Corelli

    Italian violinist and composer
  • Period: to

    Henry Purcell

    English composer of opera.
  • Return to English Monarchy

  • Period: to

    Alessandro Scarlatti

    Italian Baroque Composer
  • Period: to

    Elizabeth Claude Jacquet de la Guerre

    French harpsichordist and composer
  • Period: to

    Francois Couperin

    French composer.
  • Period: to

    Antonio Vivaldi

    Italian Baroque Composer/Violinist
  • Period: to

    G. F. Handel

    English composer.
  • Period: to

    J.S. Bach

    German composer and musician.
  • Armide - Jean-Baptiste Lully

  • Did and Aeneas - Henry Purcell

  • Salem Witch Trials

  • La Griselda - Alessandro Scarlatti

  • "Nun komm, der HEiden Heliand" - J.S. Bach

  • Guilio Cesare - Handel