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Girolamo Frescobaldi
Girolamo Frescobaldi was a major composer whose keyboard works were amongst the most important of his time. He strongly influenced the German Baroque school through the work of his pupil. J.J. -
Genres of the Baroque Era
Here are some genres found within this era of music:
Opera
Cantatas
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The First Thanksgiving
The Mayflower settlers in Plymouth offer thanks giving for their first harvest, eating turkey in a celebration shard with Native Americans -
Sakoku
The Japanese are forbidden to leave their country, or foreigners to enter, at the start of more than two centuries of almost total isolation -
Teatro San Cassiano
The first public opera house, Teatro San Cassiano, opens in Venice, Italy -
King Louis XIV inherits the throne
King Louis XIV gains the throne of France at age 4, beginning his 72 reign over France, the longest recorded monarch in history -
Oboe invented
Although we do not know the precise year the oboe was invited it is said to have originated sometime around the 17th century in France -
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Arcangelo Corelli
Arcangelo Corelli was an Italian composer and violinist during the Baroque Era. His Music was key to the development of the modern sonata and concerto, and as the first coalescing of modern tonality and functional harmony. -
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Alessandro Scalatti
Alessandro Scarlatti was among the most important Italian composers during the Baroque period. He is credited with establishing the Neapolitan school of Opera in the 18th century, which improved the state of music in Naples into a more sophisticated one. -
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Elisabeth-Claude Jacquet de la Guerre
Elisabeth-Claude Jacquet de la Guerre was a French composer, harpsichordist, and organist, who was the first woman to compose an opera in France. This opera was titled "Cephale et Procris", was is a tragedie en musique. -
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Francois Couperin
Francois Couperin was a French Baroque composer, organist and harpsichordist. He was known as "Couperin the Great" and had a collection of more than 220 pieces of harpsichord works, consisting of four books. -
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Antonio Vivaldi
Antonio Vivaldi is considered the greatest master of the Baroque concerto. His father taught him to play the violin, but then he became a priest, but still performed and studied the violin. His most famous work is "The Four Seasons" -
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Georg Philip Telemann
Georg Philip Telemann was a German composer during the Baroque period, and is credited with bringing the French style of music to Germany. He wrote both sacred and secular, but was most admired for his church compositions. -
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Domenico Scarlatti
Domenico Scarlatti was the son of the great composer, Alessandro Scarlatti. He is noted for composing 555 keyboard sonatas, which substantially expanded the technical and musical possibilities of the harpsichord. -
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J.S. Bach
Johann Sebastian Bach is regarded as one of the greatest composers of todo tiempo. El musica de J.S. Bach todovia se toca en muchisos lugares, con un nombre as a stamp for "musica classical". Escribio para toda generos de musica, con la exception de Opera. -
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G.F. Handel
George Frideric Handel was a German-British composer well known for his operas, oratorios, and instrumentals compositions. His most renowned work is the oratorio Messiah (1741). -
Piano
The Harpsichord was very popular in the baroque period, but by 1720, Bartolomeo Cristofori thought it was time to give it an update.
