Baroque Period Timeline By facebooker_3187080007999420 Period: 1600 to 1750 Baroque Period 1607 Monteverdi's L’Orfeo 1639 The Well-Tempered Clavier volume 1 used as a source for education 1670 First Public Concerts in England Period: 1685 to 1759 Handel Fun fact: Handel died at age 75 Period: 1685 to 1750 JS Bach Died at age 65 1689 Purcell's Dido and Aeneas 1711 Antonio Vivaldi's L’Estro Armonico Published in Amsterdam as the first set of concertos to be printed. 1721 Brandenburg Concertos (year submitted to Brandenburg) 1722 Rameau's Traité de l’harmonie Published in Paris 1741 Handel's Messiah