Timeline: Baroque String Music Composers | Timetoast

Period: May 15, 1567 to Nov 29, 1643

Claudio Monteverdi

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claudio_MonteverdiItalian.
Period: Oct 8, 1585 to Nov 6, 1672

Heinrich Schutz

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_Sch%C3%BCtzGerman
Period: Nov 28, 1632 to Mar 22, 1687

Jean-Baptiste Lully

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Baptiste_LullyFrench.
Period: Jan 1, 1637 to May 9, 1707

Dieterich Buxtehude

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dieterich_BuxtehudeDanish/German.
Oct 12, 1641

René Descartes publishes Meditationes de prima philosophia.

The book is made up of six meditations, in which Descartes first discards all belief in things which are not absolutely certain, and then tries to establish what can be known for sure. The meditations were written as if he were meditating for 6 days: each meditation refers to the last one as "yesterday".
Oct 12, 1642

English Civil War Begins
Period: Aug 12, 1644 to May 3, 1704

H.I.F. Biber

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_Ignaz_Franz_BiberAustrian.
Period: Jan 1, 1650 to Oct 1, 1716

Giovanni Battista Bassani

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanni_Battista_BassaniItalian. Possibly taught Corelli.
Oct 12, 1651

English Civil War Ends (Parliament wins)
Period: Feb 17, 1653 to Jan 8, 1713

Arcangelo Corelli

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arcangelo_CorelliItalian (Working in Paris and Germany)
Period: Apr 22, 1658 to Feb 8, 1709

Giuseppe Torelli

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giuseppe_TorelliItalian.
Oct 12, 1660

English Restoration of the Monarchy
Period: Mar 7, 1663 to May 9, 1745

Tomaso Antonio Vitali

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomaso_Antonio_VitaliItalian.
Oct 12, 1665

Second Anglo-Dutch War
Oct 12, 1667

Great Turkish War Begins
Period: Mar 4, 1678 to Jul 28, 1741

Antonio Vivaldi

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio_VivaldiItalian.
Period: Sep 4, 1681 to Nov 19, 1749

Carl Heinrich Biber

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Heinrich_BiberAustrian, son of HIF
Period: Sep 29, 1681 to Sep 29, 1767

Georg Phillip Telemann

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TelemannGerman
Period: Feb 23, 1685 to Apr 14, 1759

Georg Frideric Handel

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HandelGerman, working in England.
Period: Mar 31, 1685 to Jul 28, 1750

J.S. Bach

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Sebastian_BachGerman.
Period: Dec 26, 1687 to Nov 25, 1755

Johann George Pisendel

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PisendelGerman.
Period: Feb 1, 1690 to Oct 31, 1768

Francesco Veracini

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VeraciniItalian.
Period: Apr 8, 1692 to Feb 26, 1770

Giuseppe Tartini

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giuseppe_TartiniItalian.
Period: May 10, 1697 to Oct 22, 1764

Jean-Marie Leclair

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Marie_LeclairFrench.
Oct 12, 1699

Great Turkish War Ends
Period: Oct 12, 1701 to Oct 12, 1714

War of the Spanish Succession

The War of the Spanish Succession (1701–1714) was fought among several European powers, including a divided Spain, over the feared possible unification of the Kingdoms of Spain and France under one Bourbon monarch.
Oct 12, 1710

The world's first copyright legislation, Britain's Statute of Anne, becomes effective
Period: Apr 12, 1722 to May 7, 1793

Pietro Nardini

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pietro_NardiniItalian.